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  • How to create the Fibonacci Sequence in Python

    August 26th, 2021 in Blog, Python, Uncategorized

    This blog post will go through how to create the famous Fibonacci sequence in Python. Each number in the Fibonacci sequence is the sum of the previous two terms. The sequence starts: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, … and carries on infinitely. The Python code I used is: The first two terms are entered into our list, then we specify the number of terms wanted in our sequence. Next, we loop through from 2 to the number of terms we wanted appending…

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  • How to change the summarization of multiple columns in Power BI.

    August 17th, 2021 in Blog, Power BI

    Have you ever been faced with the issue where Power BI automatically adds a sigma symbol to the front of your column if it detects it’s a data type of integer or decimal? Now this isn’t too much of an issue if you’ve imported only a few columns but what if you’ve imported lots? Going through this column by column can become tiresome! Luckily there is a hack, not only to turn summarization to “None” on multiple columns at once, but…

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  • Azure Synapse Series: What is Workload Management (part2)

    July 30th, 2021 in Azure, Blog, Business Intelligence, Synapse

    So in part 1 we found out what Workload Management was and why we wanted to use it. (If you haven’t read that part, please click here and read that post before you carry on, as we’re jumping in at the deep end!) In this part we’ll be learning how to configure it. Continuing from the end of the previous post, you have two main options to configure this. First is to assign a user or role to one of the existing system defined…

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  • How the UNICHAR() DAX Function Enhances Power BI Reports

    July 2nd, 2021 in Blog, DAX, Power BI, Uncategorized

    Enhance your Power BI reports and heighten your user's experience with icons and emojis

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  • Join 2 Python lists together using nested loops

    June 25th, 2021 in Blog, Python, Uncategorized

    In this blog post I will show you how to join two 2D Python lists together. The code is in the screenshot below. Lines 1 – 2 are two lists that are going to be joined, line 3 is an empty list where the output will be appended to. Lines 4 – 5 are two loops (one nested inside the other) which cycle through the records in both lists, line 6 checks whether the first items (index 0) in the two records from each list that are currently i…

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  • How to export more than 30,000 rows of data from Power BI Desktop.

    June 21st, 2021 in Blog, DAX, Power BI

    Have you ever wanted to export a table from Power BI Desktop into Excel just to make sure the DAX you’ve written is performing as expected but ran into this error message: “Data exceeds the limit – Your data is too large. Some data sampling may occur”? Most probably this has occurred because you’ve got more than 30,000 rows of data in your table that you’re trying to export. In the example shown below I’ve actually got 30,001 rows…

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  • Azure Synapse Series: What is Workload Management (part1)

    June 10th, 2021 in Azure, Blog, Business Intelligence, Synapse

    So you’ve started using Synapse SQL Pools, you’ve scaled up to improve performance, but your queries aren’t going as fast as you’d hoped. You take a look at resource utilisation and you see that as you scale up, your total resource utilisation per query goes down. But didn’t we scale up to allow our query to use more resource and run quicker? What’s going on here? A little thing called Workload Management.…

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  • Dynamic Date Formats in Power BI

    May 7th, 2021 in Blog, Power BI, Uncategorized

    Which date format styles should we use if we are building a report that is being consumed internationally? Remember, 01/12/2021 is December 1st or January 12th depending in which part of the world it is being read. The decision may be taken from our hands if there is a company policy in place. If the company is based in the USA, for example, they may choose to use US formatted date fields as a standard for reporting across the entire business,…

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  • My DAX Training Evaluation

    April 30th, 2021 in Blog, DAX

    Being fairly new to DAX and having recently completed some DAX training I thought it would be good to briefly share my experiences of the courses I have completed. The two courses I have recently done are: Stairway to DAX and Power BI by Bill Pearson (https://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairways/stairway-to-dax-and-power-bi) Mastering DAX by Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari (https://www.sqlbi.com/p/mastering-dax-video-course/) Stairway to DAX is…

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  • Power BI – Enable Load

    April 16th, 2021 in Blog, Business Intelligence, Power BI, Uncategorized

    In Power BI Power Query there is an option to enable or disable whether a table is loaded into the report. The option ‘Enable load’ can be found by right clicking on the table. Typically, by default, the load is already enabled. There is also an option ‘Include in report refresh’ which lets a user stop a table from refreshing when they refresh the entire report. This maybe useful for static tables or tables that are large which take a…

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