Microsoft Power BI Designer Now supports DAX Calculated Measures
Just a quick update, I was busy working on a Power BI presentation and thought let me just download the Microsoft Power BI Designer and see if it has been updated. And to my great surprise it has. It appears as though it was updated on 21 April 2015. I then went and installed the downloaded version of Microsoft Power…
Power Pivot and DAX in Power BI
Introduction: Something got me thinking the other day when I used the Google Analytics Connector and saw what looked like to me was a Power Pivot Model, as well as an image. I know in the current Power BI Designer as well as when you import an Excel file into Power BI on the web front end, you do not get to see these…
BI-NSIGHT | Mobile BI from Microsoft – SQL 2014 SP1 – Power BI (Google Analytics Connector)
This is a slightly different post from what I have been posting in the past, which has been completely technically focused! I have decided that I read up and look into so many things relating to the Microsoft BI eco system, that I should also share this with the readers and followers of my blog. Where I can give my…
SSIS – Configuring SSIS Package to run job after data loading has completed
In our example below, we are going to be using a SharePoint 2013 Data Alert job which was created in SQL Server Agent, and then insert this into an existing SSIS Project. The reason for doing this, is so that every time our SSIS Project runs, as part of the process, it can then fire off a SQL Server Job….
Power Query – Adding Leading Zero to Number (EG: Month Number)
Below is an example if you have a requirement and you want to add a leading zero Example: You have a Month Number that starts with “1”, and you want it to start with “01” In your Power Query Window, click on Add Custom Column and then put in the following syntax Text.PadStart(Text.From([Month]),2,”0″) NOTE: In the above example, we have…
For SQL Server 2014 – Use the following link below to use an oData Source to get data from SharePoint List into your table
Below are the steps if you want to use SQL Server 2014 to get data from a SharePoint list into your database. The URL below explains how to download and install the OData Source for SQL Server 1. Click on the following link below a. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42295 2. Then once you load the page click on Download a. This will then…
SSRS – Microsoft sql server fitler table/matrix with 2nd row of data
What I wanted to do, was to create multiple table/matrix, but to have them separate. And then to have 5 of them in total. But I wanted to have the top 5. So I wanted the first one to be the top value, then top 2, top 3, top 4 and top 5. This is what the result looks like:…
The future for me
I was reading through the email from The Databse Weekly and I saw an article from Paul Randal with regards to Paul being your mentor. This really got me thinking and where is my future within Business Intelligence (BI). I really love what I do. I get great satisfaction and enjoyment when I can tell people a story about their…
Error: An Item with the same key has been already added – Unable to load the tables in the Power Pivot Window
NOTE: First thing to do is to make a copy of your Excel Workbook, before making any changes to your Power Query Source. If you do NOT, and change your Power Query source, your Power Pivot Model could become unusable! 1. I had an issue where if I changed the Power Query source from a CSV after I made changes…
Power QUery – Creating
Hi there, it has been quite a while since I have posted anything. After moving country and getting my first job. I have subsequently moved to my second job which is going really well. So I have started working on all the new BI Features that Microsoft has been offering and below is something that I needed to do, is…