How to automate your data to always store the last 2 years of data using Power Query
How cool would it be to not have to manually update your dataset to keep data for last 2 Years (last year and this year to the current date)? In this blog post I will show you how you can easily filter dates in Power Query to show dates for last year and year to date by using the GUI…
Creating Dynamic Date Column Headers in Table/Matrix Names in Power BI
I find I do love a good challenge and I find that I get them frequently. I also enjoy sharing what I have learnt with others. In this blog post I am going to show you how I found a way to create Dynamic Date Column Headers for Tables or Matrixes in Power BI. Below is what it looks like…
Has your Power BI App been stuck in “Building App” state? I show one way to solve this.
When working with Power BI Customers there are times I have seen when a new user is starting to use Power BI and they can log in after getting an email for a Power BI App as shown below. It stays in this state no matter what they do. Below is how I have gotten this issue resolved. The first…
How to use SSIS with Power Query to extract data from Power BI Premium and insert into local CSV
I was helping and answering some questions on the Power BI community forums and I came across a question where someone was looking to query data from Power BI Premium using SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services). This is definitely possible and I will show you below how I can use SSIS, to query data from Power BI Premium and store…
Power BI Visuals now support Custom Formatting for measures using Calculation Groups!
The Power BI team has been doing a lot of incredible work. The most recent update which I got wind of is Custom Formatting of measures is now supported for Visuals. This has already been deployed to the Power BI Service and if you download thelatest version of Power BI Desktop (Version 2.83.5894.961 as at 03 Aug 2020) it has…
Did you know you can query data from AWS S3 into Power BI?
I really enjoy a good challenge, and with my customer they have all their data stored in AWS S3. Whilst there is no native connector, I thought there must be a way for me to get the data from AWS S3 into Power BI. I did a bit of Googling and could not find any suitable solution. I also found…
Validating Power BI DAX measures when using Tabular Editor
I have really enjoyed using Tabular Editor with Power BI, as announced in the latest version of Power BI Announcing public preview of external tools in Power BI Desktop One of the challenges I have found is that it is very easy to create a new measure in Tabular Editor. Due to it currently not having any Intellisense I have…
Showing Dates in reverse order for Tables/Matrix with dates, so that the latest is always shown first in a Power BI Matrix
While doing some work I had a matrix that I had created. What I found was that when I had more Yr-Month values that could fit in the matrix due to having the scroll bar it would show me the older Yr-Months and not the latest ones as shown below. I always like to think what the experience would be…
How to configure Incremental Refresh with Power Query in Power BI
Following on from my successful blog post How you can incrementally refresh any Power BI data source (This example is a CSV File), I found a way where I can just use dates created in Power Query to get data refreshing incrementally. Full credit goes to Rafael Mendonç who actually figured this out. All that I have done is to…
Getting the correct Date Format to be displayed in the Power BI Service
Lately on the Power BI Community I have noticed people having issues with the date format not showing correctly. I thought I would post the steps on how to achieve this below. This is how my date was formatted before making the changes below NOTE: Before starting make sure you have saved and closed all your work. I had…