Fabric content is all over the place by now. In Fabric, as a SaaS platform, most (if not all) services have interconnectivity. In a few clicks you connect your web-developed Power BI dataset to a lakehouse, or warehouse to fetch data from OneLake. But what about Power BI Desktop? You might have uploaded some files …
Recently, I was presenting my session about AI Capabilities for Power BI to make AI Accessible for Everyone for the Virtual Power BI Days Hamburg. A great event organized by Kathrin Borchert. Part of my session was about the Artificial Intelligence capabilities offered as part of Power BI Premium. A day later, Kathrin came up …
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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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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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It has been a month since my last blog post. So, it was about time for new content! Since last month I'm busy preparing for the Power Platform Summit at the end of March in Amsterdam, so not much time left. Find more about the summit on my events page. So far so good, now time …
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The first step we take in every Power BI report, is connecting to the data source. But maybe you have to change your data source after a while. For example when your transferring your solution from development to acceptance or production. Of course, we can switch data source in the data source settings of our Power …
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