Wednesday/Thursday – Power BI Technology and More

Every Wednesday & Thursday, we look at a tech topic. This could be a new feature, how something works or how to troubleshoot something within Power BI technology, Reporting Services and Analysis Services.

This may also include the occasional topic relating to the Microsoft Data Platform as a whole, such as SQL Server or an Azure technology. Because of Power BI, there will also be content related to Office 365 and Azure Active Directory.

Wait?!? I can’t conditionally format a Line Chart in Power BI?

You have a requirement that your line chart needs to be conditionally formatted. But wait! There's no option to do that within Power BI? Go to another tool? NOPE! Adam has you covered!

When Sorting Fails: Dynamic Formatting mistakes with Measures

Have a measure that you want to format as a string in Power BI? But then the sorting doesn't work on it? What do you do? You can't sort by column with Measures. Patrick shows [...]

At last!!! Power Query within Power BI Report Builder!

With Power Query being available for Power BI Paginated reports in Report Builder, you can now do something that was very hard to do in the past. Patrick shows you what's new! Get data with [...]

Boost DAX Performance in Power BI with Dual Mode

Don't ignore Dual Mode! If you are leveraging DirectQuery and Import in your Power BI semantic model, you could have some performance problems you aren't aware of. Patrick shows you what's going on!

Wait!?! It’s the same data source! What’s going on???

Think you are using the same data source in Power BI? Maybe you aren't? Patrick shows you how this can affect DAX Query performance and how to correct it.

Copilot for Power BI: Your Ultimate Copilot Guide

Have you used Copilot for Power BI? Do you know there are different copilots within Power BI? Carly joins us for the ultimate Copilot for Power BI guide! Overview of Copilot for Power BI (preview) [...]

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