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Push datasets are an efficient and inexpensive way to implement real-time updates in Power BI reports and dashboards. They can provide better performance and scalability than DirectQuery at the price of a small development cost. Read more
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Is there a secret recipe to create a beautiful dashboard? Why do we need to use “beautiful”? Would “useful” be a better adjective? If you think for a moment, you know that we are attracted by the “beautiful”. It is… Read more
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A little background: in these days I’m preparing sessions for some upcoming conferences in Italy (despite the English titles, most of the sessions will be in Italian: Microsoft SharePoint & Office Conference 2010 next week and Microsoft SQL Server &… Read more
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I recently tried Excel for iPad and tried opening several workbooks. The results are pretty good, but I’ve found that it wasn’t possible to display certain workbooks. For example, opening a workbook that contains many CUBEVALUE formulas, I should have… Read more
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Though you can build real-time reports with DirectQuery, push datasets offer a more scalable, economical, and effective solution especially when combined with an Import model already in place. In this article we introduce the architecture of push datasets. Read more
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articleThe Space Report Under the Hood
The infographic “Space Report” submitted to the Best Report Contest in Power BI is not only a collection of nice charts and graphics. There are several little gems implemented to overcome certain limitations, as you will read in this article. Read more
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Microsoft released a new version of Power BI in preview mode, including many new visualizations that are immediately available to all existing subscribers also in production, such as the long waited treemap, combo charts (combining line chart and column chart),… Read more
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We are approaching the end of 2017, so it is a good time to review what happened in the DAX world this year, what we’ve been up to at SQLBI and what is going to happen in 2018. New DAX… Read more
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I wrote this blog post with Alberto Ferrari. A few days ago, during the Build conference, Microsoft announced the availability, although still in preview, of Power BI Embedded. In a few words, Power BI Embedded lets you embed Power BI… Read more
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Recently I have seen a long demo of BonaVista Dimensions. It is a product that is able to create reports and, most important dashboards. You can use it also without SQL Server and Analysis Services, just by importing data in… Read more