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  • Sorting a Power BI table by multiple columns

    May 29th, 2020 in Blog, Power BI, Uncategorized

    A common request that is raised by clients is how to sort a table in Power BI by multiple columns, in the same way you can in Excel.For a while, there was no way (at least no easy way) to do this until the Power BI March 2020 update. I learnt this tip from the following YouTube video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik0K1H9j2UcFull credit to Dhruvin Shah, check his video out. Below I have a Power BI table displaying fruit sales, currently…

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  • Power BI Databricks Spark connection error

    May 19th, 2020 in Big Data, Blog, Cloud, Power BI, Spark

    When querying data from Azure Databricks (spark) into Power BI you may encounter an error: “ODBC:ERROR [HY000] [Microsoft][Hardy] (100) The host and port specified for the connection do not seem to belong to a Spark server. Please check your configuration.“ This is usually caused by trying to connect to a ‘Standard’ Databricks instance, but Power BI (and ODBC in general) can only connect to Databricks using a…

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  • Creating calendar tables with DAX using Power BI

    April 6th, 2020 in Blog, Business Intelligence, Dashboarding and Reporting, Power BI

    By Nick Edwards In this blog post we’ll take a quick look at creating a self-generating calendar table using DAX. Dates are important if we want to perform time intelligence reporting on our data i.e. yearly sales, monthly sales, weekly sales, year to date sales or previous year sales. We’ll be using the calendar function to create our date table, but there are other methods to do this such as CALENDARAUTO or GENERATESERIES. Here is the…

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  • Creating Power BI Layouts using PowerPoint

    December 2nd, 2019 in Blog, Power BI

    First question, why bother with layouts?Using layouts in Power BI allows a user to make their visuals stand out better, the page looks professional and more appealing to its audience. Second question, why PowerPoint?The default page size in Power BI desktop is 16:9, (this trick doesn’t work for other Power BI page sizes), which is identical to a PowerPoint slide.Therefore whatever is designed in PowerPoint will fit onto a Power BI page…

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  • Sampling data in Data Lake U-SQL for Power BI

    January 26th, 2017 in Big Data, Blog, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Data Lake, Power BI

    Being able to hook Power BI directly into Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) is a very powerful tool (and it will be even more so when you can link to ADLS files that are in a different Azure account!! – not yet available as at January 2017). However there is a problem, Data Lake is designed to scale to petabytes of data whereas Power BI has a 10GB limit. Yes this is compressed, so we’d expect around 100GB of raw data, however to load…

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