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The Power BI Color Theme

The Power BI Color Theme has arrived! This new feature will simplify adding visual awesomeness to your reports.

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Happy Birthday Power BI!

There is a lot to be excited about with Power BI. One year ago today, Power BI hit the ground running with its General Availability release, and it still hasn't slowed down. 

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Power BI Connection Types

There are different ways to connect to various sources, but there are also some limitations depending on what method you choose. As a result, I wanted to take a quick moment to outline the different connection types, and in what scenarios you can use them.

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SSAS Tabular Model Development Using Power BI Desktop

One of the challenges with SSAS Tabular model development, for me, has always been the need to fully vet out a new measure or calculation in the intended visuals. Is there another way beside Analyze in Excel?

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Exploring SQL Server Metrics in Power BI

This blog is aimed at IT/Database folks to show you how you can leverage Power BI when analyzing databases and environments for problem areas or performance issues. This exercise presents an alternative to rows and rows of data, and gives some tools/ideas to create a quick report and make it repeatable across environments when analyzing SQL Server metrics.      

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Turn the Lights On, Plug into Power BI

As a consumer of products, I am a stickler when I purchase items over a certain amount. I want quality, I want a good price, and I want to know that the company will stand behind the product they sell me. I rarely, if ever, have purchased the latest and greatest thing because, unless it offers something so incredible and I just can’t resist, I usually look at last year’s model. It will typically have tested metrics, it has reviews by many users, and if updateable – fixes and updates provided by the manufacturer. And more often than not, it’s much cheaper because a premium is generally charged for the newest features. I have typically dealt with software purchases and adoption using this same approach, and rarely come across something that falls into the “must have” category. So why am I boring you with how I purchase things? I’m doing it to outline the fact that I am not the guy that needs the latest shiny thing or the “jump on the bandwagon” type of individual.

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