This is a natural extension to my post about how to query the Power BI tenant metadata. The JSON data output from the “Get Activity Events” REST API (Power BI Audit Log) is much more… Read More »Query Power BI activity events with Synapse Serverless SQL
As a natural follow-up on my last blog post about using Synapse Analytics to extract a complete tenant catalogue of Power BI metadata I will now show how to use the power of the Serverless… Read More »Query Power BI tenant metadata with Synapse Serverless SQL
All the Data Factory templates that comes as part of my Power BI Monitor GitHub repository can already easily be imported and used with Synapse Analytics. So, why do I now create a new one?… Read More »Extracting Power BI tenant metadata with Synapse Analytics
Two years ago I started writing a blog post to present this concept I came up with as part of my consulting, presentations and training. It’s really nothing fancy – it’s just a simple architecture… Read More »Traditional Modern Data Warehouse on GitHub
Microsoft Graph is the gateway to data and intelligence in Microsoft 365 and comes with REST APIs so we can extract data from a long range of Microsoft cloud services like Microsoft 365 core services and… Read More »Extracting Microsoft Graph data with Data Factory
You can now get the list of users as part of the WorkspaceInfo API. You just extend the PostWorkspaceInfo API call with getArtifactUsers=True. Much easier and also give you user details on datasets, reports etc.… Read More »Extracting Power BI metadata with Data Factory (part 2)
Ok, this might be a clickbait title, but nonetheless – you can actually save money if you buy Power BI Premium capacity as a replacement for hosting your models on Azure Analysis Services. This is… Read More »Save money with Power BI Premium Gen2
As a natural continuation on my latest blog post on Extracting the Power BI activity log with Data Factory i will now share how to extract all the metadata of your Power BI tenant. Information… Read More »Extracting Power BI metadata with Data Factory (part 1)
If you want to follow along and get an understanding how your Power BI tenant is used, then it’s crucial to get your hands in all the activity events in the Power BI Audit Log.… Read More »Extracting the Power BI activity log with Data Factory
Big data, Databricks and now also Synapse Analytics. Microsoft really focuses on how to put together BI and DWH solutions that can handle huge volumes of data. But what about the “ordinary” solutions in the… Read More »The traditional modern Data Warehouse