Business Intelligence Architect, Analysis Services Maestro, and author Bill Pearson introduces two DAX Time Intelligence functions related to the Date: FIRSTDATE(), and LASTDATE(). He discusses the syntax, uses and operation of each function, and then provides hands-on exposure to it in Power BI.
2024-01-16 (first published: 2023-03-01)
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Learn how you can share your Power BI report with others in the public. Steve shows how his data in Google Sheets is added to Power BI and then made public in a report.
2023-01-27
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2022-06-22
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2022-05-06
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Introduction Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors working together. It helps to connect different data sources and get visually immersive and interactive insights from the data. Power BI creates powerful reports to be shared with others, as required. Data may be connected from different sources including files, databases, Azure services, […]
2021-07-12
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Introduction In my last article, Using Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB , I discussed creating the Synapse Link to query data present in Azure Cosmos DB from my Synapse workspace. Here, I will create a new database in the serverless SQL pool and create views based on the Cosmos DB JSON files. Then, I will […]
2021-01-12
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A critique of a first attempt to write an M query to convert a folder full of images to text that caused PowerQuery to perform multiple file reads
2019-05-31
This article describes how to use and interpret the information provided by the Power BI Performance Analyzer, finding the bottlenecks in slow reports.
2019-05-31
Dave Mason takes us through his journey in learning how to visualize data with R, in Power BI desktop.
2019-05-31
2019-05-23
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I have a detached database from SQL Server 2019, called TDE_Primer. This database had a 100MB data file and a 73MB log file. The log file was lost, so I need to run this code:
USE [master] GO CREATE DATABASE [TDE_Primer] ON ( FILENAME = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL15.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\TDE_Primer.mdf' ) FOR ATTACH_REBUILD_LOG GOHow big is the new log file? See possible answers