As a Data & Analytics consultant, working on tons of different projects, it is very likely that I'm the creator and owner of a whole lot of dataflow and dataset refreshes. Since these refreshes can only be managed by the owner, this limits the rest of my colleagues from updating the scheduled and maintaining the …
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Over a year ago, I wrote a blog about Multiple tier architecture and continuous delivery with Power BI, mainly an overview of the setup and manually creating development and production content. This blog will continue this story in more detail of Power BI CI/CD with Azure DevOps automated deployments. A solution where Dave Ruijter, Ton …
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Please also check the follow-up blogpost with all recent additions here. Dataflows are part of the Power BI service for a while now. More and more people are starting to benefit from it in multiple perspectives. The two most heard ones are re-use of data (and logic), but also isolate refreshes to avoid dependencies of …
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Last week, on Friday Septembre 13th, I presented at Data:Scotland. As the name already suggests, in Scotland, Glasgow to be precise. An awesome community event with loads of intresting people and reality well organized. Definitely one to put on your list to visit once! At this event, I presented my all new session about "AI …
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Previously, I've written a blog post about Top N & query folding to improve report building. In this blog post I explained how query folding groups Power Query steps together and execute at the data source. Matt Allington also wrote a great blog with further explanation on how query folding works. While working on projects, …
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It has been a month since my last blog. Busy times with a lot of interesting projects, so less time for writing blogs. Last weekend I was traveling to Power Saturday in Paris. So now I finally had some time to write the blog I was thinking about for a while. Dataflows! Power BI dataflows …
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Another week, another event done. This time it was SQL Saturday Helsinki, where I did two sessions. First session was the Power BI cheat sheet explained, and second Storytelling & interactive reporting, one of my favorite sessions to do. Today, another day in Helsinki, but since the weather isn’t that good, it is time for …
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Posting a blog on Sunday, yeah...why not. This time posted from the beautiful city of Stockholm. I traveled to Stockholm to attend SQL Saturday Stockholm #851 this weekend as a speaker. Today, Sunday, I'm still here to do some sight seeing. So I wrote this blog post with the below shown view. Could be worse... …
Last week, I was challenged by moving my Power BI dataset through the next stage in my DTAP pipeline. I simply wanted to re-assign my connections to the data source in the next stage. In my case, I created a separate workspace including separate dataflows for each stage. Since de dataflows connector in Power BI is …
Last week I attended at two events, the Power Platform Summit and the Power BI gebruikersdag (Power BI Saturday). During these events I presented multiple sessions on different topics. First of all, I would like to thank the program committee for selecting my sessions. In addition, I also want to thank everybody who attended at …
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