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
With the December 2020 release of Power BI Desktop we got an early christmas present. A loooong waited feature that will change how we build Power BI solutions! The feature is called “DirectQuery for Power… Read More »Understand the queries behind Composite Models
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
The background for the Power BI Quiz is quite simple. I misses hanging out with new and old Power BI friends at community meetings and conferences. And then simply having some fun ? I have… Read More »Power BI Quiz. Who, What, When, Where, Why, How?
Ohhh no. Another Power BI feature that requires Premium. I know this feeling. A lot of small and medium sized companies don’t have Premium – they simply can’t afford it. With less than 500 users… Read More »Using the XMLA endpoint without Premium
There has been a lot of fuss around XMLA endpoint in Power BI since the announcement by Christian Wade at Ignite 2018. Firstly Microsoft opened up the endpoint for read access and finally now, as… Read More »Use cases of the XMLA endpoint
Paginated Reports have moved in with Power BI in the cloud – the big wedding was this summer! Analytic interactive reports are now side-by-side with the good old pixel perfect print friendly paginated reports that… Read More »Power BI Paginated Reports – Love is in the air!
Today I had the big pleasure of presenting my “Enterprise and Self-service in Power BI – better together” session on the Power BI Palooza conference in Atlanta. It’s a spin-off my “Deploying Power BI in… Read More »Enterprise and Self-service in Power BI
The Power BI Shootout is a competition where a number of contestants each gives a live 10 minute Power BI demo in front of an audience. The demo can be awesome M code, magic DAX and/or… Read More »Organizing a Power BI Shootout