By now, we’ve all seen Microsoft’s rebranding of Power BI, PowerApps, and Flow into the Power Platform, a set of tools for the citizen developer to analyze data, take action from that data, and, ultimately, solve problems. No doubt, you’ve…
Optimization has become one of my favorite topics. OK, I’ll admit it: it might be an obsession and a source of joy. My inability to optimize (queries, data models, and DAX) used to be a source of headaches and the…
We were recently building a data model with on-prem Dynamics data mostly using the OData feed (v8.2). This article only scratches the surface of what is possible with OData (including update/write functions and much more complex queries than those shown…
With the Power BI craze that kicked into high gear in 2017, it’s less common to be working in PowerPivot in Excel. However, during one of my recent remote consulting calls, one of our many clients needed some help with…
One of the nice things about the Power Suite (the term I generally use to refer to Power BI, Power Pivot, and Power Query; does anyone else have any good terms?) is that it can easily allow you to replicate…
Quick tip for DST Refresh Date function Power BI Service. I'll put the code up front, and explain it below. I'll also say a bit about how to use it at the end. The United States and other places, like…
Happy New Year 2019 to our P3 readers! For the new year, I have a question for you: What do you think of when you hear the word “Flow”? For me, I immediately think of “Flo” from Progressive – someone…
I see a lot of Power BI users asking for the ability to set a default slicer selection in their reports. Although this isn’t natively supported as of yet, we can imitate this functionality with a little bit of DAX!…
I’ve written in the past about using the CUBE functions in Excel. The general pattern of the examples I’ve used was pretty consistent: Creating a set of members of some sort, like products or customers using the CUBESET function Extracting…
Here are 2 tips for visualizations in Power BI Dashboard. In Power BI service (PBIS) there are reports. But there are also dashboards. Dashboards are sites to pin key visuals. People can view but not interact with them. They can click…