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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Power BI Drill Through using Multiple Data Points

    February 23rd, 2021 in Blog, Power BI

    A drill through in Power BI allows the reader to see secondary data related to the original page with the context of a specific data point applied, for example, drilling through on sales data can display the demographic information of the relevant customers for those sales. One limitation of the drill through functionality is that it only allows users to drill through on a single data point. If more than one is selected, the drill through…

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  • Tabular Cube Processing Report

    December 9th, 2020 in Analysis Services, Blog, Business Intelligence, Power BI, Tabular, Uncategorized

    I have created a Power BI report which provides detail on the state of processing in a Tabular Cube.The report uses the cube’s dynamic management views to provide information about the cube’s partitions. To use the tabular cube processing report, you need to insert the following information: Server Database (Cube Name) Once entered and assuming the connection is fine you need to accept some native queries. These statements are select…

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  • SSAS Tabular Calculation Groups – avoid using SELECTEDMEASURE or ISSELECTEDMEASURE

    June 17th, 2020 in Analysis Services, Blog, Power BI, Tabular

    Introduction: There is a very serious limitation in the behaviour of calculation groups when using the SELECTEDMEASURE or ISSELECTEDMEASURE functions, and we recommend not using them. Why? If a user creates their own custom calculations within their Power BI report (or composite model) then the value of SELECTEDMEASURE changes, breaking your calculation group logic. Let me explain with an example: In a tabular cube we may look to use calculation…

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  • Using ConcatenateX in PowerBI to return multiple values.

    June 9th, 2020 in Blog, Business Intelligence, Power BI

    In this blog post we’ll take a quick look at using ConcatenateX function to view a concatenated string of dates where the max daily sales occurred for a given month. I came across this function whilst going through the excellent “Mastering DAX 2nd Edition Video Course” by the guys from SQLBI.com. So credit to Marco and Alberto for sharing this. So how does it work? If we had a list of dates ranging from 01/01/2020 to 31/12/2020 and we…

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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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