Scheduling the Power BI Premium Backup – Part 2
In this blog post I am going to detail how to create a schedule, test and confirm that the backup for the Power BI Premium dataset is successfully backed up. This follows on from my first blog post: Automating the backup of Power BI Premium datasets/databases – Part 1 Getting the Power BI XMLA URL and Dataset name Before creating…
Automating the backup of Power BI Premium datasets/databases – Part 1
Use the script from Azure Runbook Can use this as reference: Steps on how I backed up my Power BI Premium Per User / Premium Database – FourMoo | Power BI | Data Analytics The first part in this 2-part series I am going to explain how configure the Azure Runbook so that you can then re-use it for multiple…
How to restore large Power BI Premium Backup files
When using Power BI Premium or Premium Per user you get the option to backup the database, there can be occasions when you try and restore the backup and it fails. The reason that it could fail is because when a restore happens it can consume additional memory which would take you up and over the memory limit. Below I…
Updating your Query syntax in Power Query to show the entire query in M
Welcome to 2023, I am looking forward to an amazing year! I have seen this come up a few times in Twitter where there is an option to put in your own TSQL Query or DAX Query and the input box is very small and often you cannot see the entire query as shown below. I will show you how…
Migrating AAS to Power BI Premium – Real World Example (Azure Analysis Services)
In this blog post I am going to show you how I migrated an Azure Analysis Services (AAS) database to Power BI (PBI). This was inspired by the blog post: Accelerate your migration experience from Azure Analysis Services to Power BI Premium with the automated migration tool | Microsoft Power BI I thought it would be a good idea to…
Testing Power BI REST APIs with Try it
Did you know that there is an easy way to run and extract Power BI REST API data? The good news is that you can do this directly in your web browser. You don’t have to install or configure anything! The method below works well if you want to either test the API to see what it returns. Or if…
Power Query – Appending text to end of column name
Power query can be so powerful and once again it came to my rescue. I had a requirement where I wanted to append some text to the end of each of the column names in my table. To do this I did the following below. This is what the columns looked like before the change. Next, I put in the…
Using Power Automate to schedule a refresh of a Power BI dataset at the time you want!
Below are the steps on how to use Power Automate to schedule a refresh of a Power BI dataset at the time you want it to. I have recently seen some questions in the Power BI Community with regards to refreshing Power BI datasets. I thought it would be a good idea to blog on how to use Power Automate…
Copy and paste Power BI Visuals in pages between Power BI Desktop Files
Did you know that if you want to it is quick and easy to copy and paste multiples Power BI visuals between two open Power BI Desktop files. To do this you can either press CTRL + A, then CTRL + C to select all the visuals from your source Power BI desktop file. Next to go the destination Power…
Getting the lineage from a Power BI dataset to table to data source to original query
As often happens blog posts originate from a customer requesting something I have not figured out before. In this example the requirement was to be able to determine which data sources were being used by which tables, which were then associated to one or many Power BI datsets. While I was working through this I figured out I could take…