If you’re performance tuning a Power BI report the most important thing you need to measure – and the thing your users certainly care about most – is how long it takes for a report page to load. Yet ...

For some reason I haven’t had any free copies of books to review recently; maybe the market for tech books has finally collapsed with AI? Books are still being published though and luckily, as someone ...

If you’re performance tuning a Power BI report the most important thing you need to measure – and the thing your users certainly care about most – is how long it takes for a report page to load. Yet ...

For some reason I haven’t had any free copies of books to review recently; maybe the market for tech books has finally collapsed with AI? Books are still being published though and luckily, as someone ...

One of the most common errors you’ll see when working with Power Query in Power BI or Excel is this: It can occur with almost any data source and in a wide variety of different circumstances, and for ...

Here’s a fun DAX performance tip that I found this week. Do you have measures that use Calculate() with a filter on a numeric column? Is one of the filters on the value 0? If so then this may affect ...

The last non empty semi-additive measure aggregation functionality in SSAS enterprise edition is very useful, but it doesn’t support one common business requirement: while it will give you the last ...

I don’t usually like to blog about topics that I think other people have blogged about already, but despite the fact that Mosha blogged about this several years ago (in fact more than eight years ago, ...

In my recent post on web services in Power Query I mentioned that while the Power Query Web.Contents() function generates a GET request by default, you can make it generate a POST request by ...

There are a lot of articles and blog posts out there on how to handle OAuth2 authentication when connecting to REST APIs from Power Query in Power BI. However there is also a lot of confusion and ...

In the first two parts of this series (see here and here) I showed how Power BI/Power Query/Excel Get & Transform’s data privacy settings can influence whether query folding takes place or even ...

Everyone is excited about Power BI Copilot, and the newly-announced preview of being able to use Copilot to ask questions about all the data in your semantic model rather than just what is shown in a ...