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At Microsoft Ignite this week, the Power BI team unveiled the next generation of the architecture for their “dedicated capacity” customers. This architecture promises to…... Read more

The license for the rest of us Today at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced the upcoming availability of a new licensing model for Premium features in…... Read more

Application Insights (AI) and Log Analytics (LA) from Microsoft Azure provide easy and inexpensive ways to instrument applications. Using just an instrumentation key, any application…Continue readingConnect to Application Insights and Log Analytics with Direct Query in Power BI... Read more

One of the features that has never made the leap from SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) on-premises to the cloud is data-driven subscriptions. Users can subscribe to reports, but a data-driven subscription allows individual subscriptions to be stored in a central location and parameterized, while delivering the reports to multiple... Read more

One of the features that has never made the leap from SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) on-premises to the cloud is data-driven subscriptions. Users can subscribe to reports, but a data-driven subscription allows individual subscriptions to be stored in a central location and parameterized, while delivering the reports to multiple... Read more

In the April 2020 release of Power BI Desktop, A new preview feature was debuted which provides an easy way to filter your report down…Continue readingWorking with Time Zones in the Power BI Relative Time Slicer and Filter... Read more

In the April 2020 release of Power BI Desktop, A new preview feature was debuted which provides an easy way to filter your report down…Continue readingWorking with Time Zones in the Power BI Relative Time Slicer and Filter... Read more

Dates and times are probably the most commonly used dimensions in Power BI charts, or any charts for that matter. Power BI contains a number of features that help to display data with respect to time. Features like the automated date hierarchy reduce the need for users to construct or... Read more

Dates and times are probably the most commonly used dimensions in Power BI charts, or any charts for that matter. Power BI contains a number of features that help to display data with respect to time. Features like the automated date hierarchy reduce the need for users to construct or... Read more

OneDrive for Business offers “unlimited” storage. You would be excused if you were sure that the limit was 1 TB because that is what it…Continue readingIncrease your OneDrive Storage Limit beyond 5 TB... Read more

OneDrive for Business offers “unlimited” storage. You would be excused if you were sure that the limit was 1 TB because that is what it…Continue readingIncrease your OneDrive Storage Limit beyond 5 TB... Read more

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Paginated reports in Power BI offer a rich set of capabilities for printing, and the generation of report documents. Paginated reports can be exported to multiple document formats, and those exports can be scheduled and delivered via email. Unfortunately, for the moment at least, paginated reports require the use of... Read more

Paginated reports in Power BI offer a rich set of capabilities for printing, and the generation of report documents. Paginated reports can be exported to…Continue readingA low cost approach for paginated report subscriptions in Power BI... Read more

Power BI is without question the best way to report on data in SharePoint lists. The query tools available in Power Query make working with SharePoint data relatively painless, an the cached dataset means that reports are run against an optimized copy of the list data, not the data itself.... Read more

Power BI is without question the best way to report on data in SharePoint lists. The query tools available in Power Query make working with…Continue readingKeep your Power BI SharePoint reports current with Microsoft Flow... Read more

Power BI Report Builder is Microsoft’s design tool for building Paginated reports in Power BI. It is based on Microsoft Report Builder (formerly SQL Server…Continue readingFixing Power BI Report Builder Connection Errors... Read more

Power BI Report Builder is Microsoft’s design tool for building Paginated reports in Power BI. It is based on Microsoft Report Builder (formerly SQL Server…Continue readingFixing Power BI Report Builder Connection Errors... Read more

Power BI V2 workspaces recently (May 2019) entered into general availability. The biggest difference between a V1 and V2 Power BI workspace is the fact…Continue readingConnecting Power BI workspaces and SharePoint sites... Read more

Power BI V2 workspaces recently (May 2019) entered into general availability. The biggest difference between a V1 and V2 Power BI workspace is the fact that a V2 workspace is not backed by an Office 365 group, and a V1 workspace is. One area that this change affects a great... Read more

Power BI datasets and dataflows are the two native data sources for Power BI reports. Connecting to a datasets allows a report to be built…Continue readingConnect to Power BI dataflows and datasets using Power BI Desktop with multiple accounts... Read more

Power BI datasets and dataflows are the two native data sources for Power BI reports. Connecting to a datasets allows a report to be built against an existing Power BI dataset in place, and dataflows represent a source of data that has had transformations applied to it. When connecting to... Read more

If you are new to Power BI, or if you’ve worked with Power BI Desktop, you’re familiar with the concept of refreshing data. By default,…Continue readingCreating complex real-time dashboards with Power BI... Read more

If you are new to Power BI, or if you’ve worked with Power BI Desktop, you’re familiar with the concept of refreshing data. By default, Power BI caches data which needs to be refreshed on a periodic basis. Reports that use Direct Query datasets do not need to have their... Read more

Microsoft data connect is a new technology for extracting data in bulkj from the Microsoft Graph. This article outlines how this data can be transformed with Databricks, and loaded into Power BI dataflows.Continue readingUsing Microsoft Graph Data Connect with Power BI Dataflows... Read more

Microsoft data connect is a new technology for extracting data in bulkj from the Microsoft Graph. This article outlines how this data can be transformed with Databricks, and loaded into Power BI dataflows.... Read more

At the end of 2018, SharePoint received something that we haven't seen for a long time – a new column type, Location. Location columns will look up an address and geocode it as it is being entered in a form. It will also separate all the constituent parts of the address... Read more

At the end of 2018, SharePoint received something that we haven't seen for a long time – a new column type, Location. Location columns will look up an address and geocode it as it is being entered in a form. It will also separate all the constituent parts of the address... Read more

Unlock all of the power of Power Query in Power BI dataflowsContinue readingGet the most out of Power Query in Power BI Dataflows... Read more

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Reporting on SharePoint data has been a requirement for a long time, and there have been many approaches to fulfill this need. Custom web parts, Data View web parts and SSRS direct connected reports have historically been some of the solutions, but they all suffer from the same problem. If... Read more

The recent availability of the SharePoint 2019 public preview, and the supporting information that accompanies it has clarified the status of Business Intelligence features in SharePoint 2019. This release, with one exception, is the culmination of the process of decoupling BI from SharePoint which began in SharePoint 2016 through the... Read more

As discussed in a previous post, Working with Excel Files in the Power BI Service, Excel and Power BI have a rich, complex relationship. Power BI Desktop is the primary design tool for Power BI, and it has many feature overlaps with Excel as an analytic tool. Excel can be... Read more

Power BI has been able to work with Excel files since it was first introduced. Indeed, it was born from the analytic capabilities in Excel. Users can connect directly to Excel files by using the Power BI service and nothing but a browser. However, depending on the content of the... Read more

This post is the sixth and final post in a series exploring Power BI and complex data types in SharePoint. This post examines the various options in Power BI for working with lookup fields. The previous posts are: Using Power BI to Report on Multi-Value SharePoint Fields Using Power BI... Read more

This post is the fifth in a series exploring Power BI and complex data types in SharePoint. This one details the use of SharePoint Hyperlink or Picture fields. The previous posts are: Using Power BI to Report on Multi-Value SharePoint Fields Using Power BI to Report on Person Fields in... Read more

This post is the fourth in a series exploring Power BI and complex data types in SharePoint. It discusses working with using Power BI to report on rich text fields from SharePoint. The previous posts are: Using Power BI to Report on Multi-Value SharePoint Fields Using Power BI to Report... Read more

This post is the third in a series exploring Power BI and complex data types in SharePoint. The first post explores working with multi-value columns,…Continue readingUsing Power BI to Report on Managed Metadata Fields in SharePoint... Read more

Power BI has garnered a lot of attention in the past few years as the “place to be” for Microsoft business intelligence. Power BI is…Continue readingThe Road Ahead for SQL Server Reporting Services and Power BI Report Server... Read more

This post is the second in a series exploring Power BI and complex data types in SharePoint. The first post explores working with multi-value columns.…Continue readingUsing Power BI to Report on Person Fields in SharePoint... Read more

Power BI has direct support for reporting on SharePoint lists and documents whether SharePoint is on-premises or in the cloud. Getting at your data is…Continue readingUsing Power BI to Report on Multi-Value SharePoint Fields... Read more

Three years ago I wrote an article about how to map your Facebook check in in Excel using Power Query and Power View. Given that…Continue readingUsing Power BI for Facebook Location Tracking... Read more

If you’re a Power BI Desktop user, you are likely familiar with the monthly update cadence. Once per month, a new Power BI Desktop is…Continue readingGet Power BI Desktop from the Microsoft Store... Read more

If you are in information worker of any sort, and have been at it for any more than a couple of years, you’ve experienced it…Continue readingOneDrive is Ready – It’s Seriously Time to Ditch the X: Drive... Read more

Power BI licensing has changed again. This week at Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft introduced a new capacity based SKU for Power BI Embedded, intended for ISVs…Continue readingUnderstanding the Power BI Capacity Based SKUs... Read more

When SQL Server 2016 was released, I wrote a post that covered how to integrate SharePoint 2016 with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) in native…Continue readingSharePoint and the New SSRS/PBIRS Native Mode Report Viewer Web Part... Read more

Power BI Report Server (PBIRS) was first introduced in May 2017. Based on SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), it brings the ability to work with…Continue readingSQL Server Reporting Services vs Power BI Report Server – What’s the Difference?... Read more

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Hi, what if you need to add a cascading to the code where the cascading is already set-up within the parameter, but not the main code? WHERE (Column IN (@para1) OR ALL IN (@para1)) AND (Column IN (@para2) OR ALL IN (@para2)) AND (Column IN (@para3) OR ALL IN (@para3))... Read more

i have one excel file in that one column my data look like below. distinguishedname(column name) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CN=MMWTRNG,OU=ITTE US,OU=MAh USERS,DC=co,DC=mah,DC=com CN=MM-KND2,OU=Dom Co,DC=co,DC=mah,DC=com CN=MAHADMIN,OU=SERVICE IDs,OU=Serv Accounts,DC=co,DC=mah,DC=com CN=MMCAS,OU=SERV,ou=appear,ou=set,DC=co,DC=mah,DC=com CN=I_USRDKNSA2,OU=SERV IDs,OU=Serv Acc,DC=co,DC=mah,DC=com i need to load the data to sql table only ou data. what is the best approcah please any one help... Read more

hi i am trying to load data from active directory to sql table by using adonet source whenever i am running package upto 9000 records are loaded to sql table after 9000 records package was fail and i am getting two errors please any one help me how can i... Read more

[ADO NET Source [2]] Error: The ADO NET Source was unable to process the data. 'ADsDSOObject' failed with no error message available, result code: -2147016669(0x80072023).... Read more

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On April 12, 2016 Microsoft will no longer offer extended support for SQL Server 2005.  This means no more security updates or hotfixes.  However, the bigger reason to upgrade is the fantastic performance improvements offered in SQL 2014.  SQL Server 2014 has been shown to be 13X faster than 2005,... Read more

This blog is original content written for the Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog, posted here. SQL Azure is a compelling platform for data storage. It’s cheap, reliable, and highly accessible. However, it’s not identical to SQL Server on-premise, and there are a number of things to be aware of when... Read more

Until now I’ve been using a service to set up separate environments to connect to my clients.  The multitude of VPN software can mess with my machine so I prefer to keep them separate.  Lately I’ve had a lot of challenges with the service, and some down time along with... Read more

I ran into this when trying to enable Hyper-V on my machine.  I found that the option for Hyper-V Platform was greyed out so I couldn’t select it.  When I hovered over the message was "Hyper-V Cannot be installed: Virtualization is disabled in the firmware".  In order to make it... Read more

There have been a number of times over the years when I have had to create a Proxy user in SQL Server in order to provide needed access to connections and locations being used in an SSIS package.  Sometimes the SQL Server Agent login account simply doesn’t and shouldn’t have... Read more

PowerPivot for Excel is a fantastic addition to Microsoft’s Business Intelligence offering.  It provides a self-service capability for users to mash-up huge amounts of data from multiple sources, create advanced calculations that get refreshed alongside their pivot tables and the ability to very easily publish workbooks as web applications.  Excel... Read more

CodePlex has a great new toolbox item for SSIS projects in Visual Studio 2012.  It’s called the SSIS Excel Refresh Task. It allows you to refresh a whole Excel file or single queries of your Excel sheet.  It works for PowerPivot models as well. There isn’t a lot of instruction... Read more

Last month I had the great honour of winning a Microsoft MVP Award.  Most of my friends and family don’t really understand what a big deal it is to win this award.  I was over the moon.  This is an award that Microsoft gives to folks who have contributed their... Read more

Here is a sweet little script that can check which stored procedures are running and perform an action.  In this case I need to update a configuration table if the stored procedure is not running. BEGIN -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from -- interfering with... Read more

I like to use my blog as a library for myself, to be able to easily find solutions I have used before.  Here is a simple example of querying an XML string using SQL.  In this example I have inserted one XML string into a temporary table, with two items... Read more