Why do I have to pay for Power BI Premium features?
I generally see quite a lot of questions as to why certain features are only available in Power BI premium. In this blog post below, I am hoping that I can explain as to why there is a cost associated to them. Power BI Pro Let me start by saying when I log in with Power BI Pro, I am…
Power BI Premium Performance – Part 4 | How does Row Level Security affect performance?
In the third part of my blog series on Performance, this time I am going to see how Row Level Security will affect performance. RLS is an awesome feature when you want to ensure that only the relevant people can view their data and not see other data. Row Level Security (RLS) is where I can create roles which can…
Power BI Premium Performance – Part 3 | How does a dataset refresh affect performance?
In the third part of my blog series on Performance, this time I am going to show how a data refresh can affect performance. Below are the high-level steps as to what happens when you refresh a dataset The first step is it creates a blank copy of your existing dataset. It then loads all the updated data into this…
Power BI Premium Performance – Part 2 | Optimization of your Power BI Model
In the second part of my blog series on Performance I am going to show how to look to potentially optimize your Power BI Model. The biggest impact you can have to the performance of your model is if you can reduce the size of the model, it just means that everything will run that much faster, process quicker and…
#PowerBI Premium Performance – Part 1 | How to use the new XMLA End Point to see how much memory your datasets are using
With the new XMLA end points, it opens a whole new world of possibilities with Power BI Premium. This is part 1 of a series that I am going to be putting together series on how to make sure when moving to Power BI Premium you can ensure that you get the best performance possible. In the future blog posts,…
#PowerBI RoundUp – Power BI Desktop release for Feb | Gartner Magic Quadrant | Service & Mobile Update for Jan | Petabyte-scale Analytics with Power BI & Azure | Incremental refresh & query folding | Premium Capacity Metrics Webinar
Well a lot has happened in the last week, with the desktop release (YAY!), and a whole host of other details. Read below for more details on what has been updated and from my perspective. Power BI Desktop Release for Feb Every month the awesome people on the Power BI Team release new features and this month is no different!…
Power BI RoundUp – Export to PDF & On Demand Email Subscriptions | Premium Capacity Metrics App Update | Difinity Conference | Power BI APIs with Service Principal | Bulk Operations in the Admin Portal | Webinar on Personal Bookmarks in the Power BI Service
Hi there, I cannot believe it is already February. This year is already starting to fly by. Please find below my weekly Power BI Round Up. Export to PDF & On Demand Email Subscriptions As you can see above you can now schedule your email subscriptions. Not only that but coming to the Power BI Service is the ability to…
Power BI RoundUp – (Desktop Update Oct 2018 – Aggregations for Petabytes Scale – Webinar Ask Anything on Power BI Premium – Power BI Report Server Timing)
I am sure that there were a few people who were eagerly waiting for the Power BI Desktop Update for October 2018. I sure was one of them and it was well worth the wait. Please read all the details below, as well as other updates that happened in the past week. Power BI – Desktop Update Oct 2018 There…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (New Monitoring Capabilities for Power BI Premium – Developer Update for August – Webinar on New Power BI Tools)
Welcome to another week of the BI-RoundUp. Power BI – New Monitoring Capabilities for Power BI Premium As you can see above there now is an App which you can get for Free from the App Source which will get all your capacity metrics which you can then use to better understand how you and your users are using your…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (December Desktop Update – Larger Power BI Premium PBIX – Power BI Bookmarking Contest – Premium Capacity WhitePaper)
Even though it is almost the holiday season, the wonderful people from the Power BI team have given myself (and hopefully you also) some early birthday presents. So please find all the updates below. Power BI – December Desktop Update There was an incredible number of updates in the December edition of Power BI Desktop, so please find below all…