All posts by Grant Gamble

Power BI Formal and Informal Hierarchies

In this series of blog posts, we will be examining some of the key features of Power BI Desktop, Power Query and the Power BI Service needed to pass exam DA-100: Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI. The

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Parameterizing SQL Server Connections

Query Parameters allow you to make the content of a report dependent on one or more parameter values. If we parameterize a data source, then we can update all our queries using that data source simply

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Power BI MCSA Certification Training Tips – Part 14: On-premises Data Gateway

To obtain your MCSA: BI Reporting you need to pass two exams: 70-778 (Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI) and 70-779 (Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Excel). However, there is a huge overlap

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Power BI MCSA Certification Training Tips – Part 13: Analyze in Excel

To obtain your MCSA: BI Reporting you need to pass two exams: 70-778 (Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI) and 70-779 (Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Excel). However, there is a huge overlap

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Power BI MCSA Certification Training Tips – Part 12: Power Query Custom Functions

To obtain your MCSA: BI Reporting you need to pass two exams: 70-778 (Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI) and 70-779 (Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Excel). However, there is a huge overlap

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Managing Relationships in Power BI

When creating reports in Power BI, you will typically create a data model that has several tables. To provide meaningful results, these tables must be linked; so that they can behave like a single unified

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Dashboard Alerts on Power BI Usage Metrics

Within each Power BI tenant, usage metrics are available not just for administrators, but for all content-creators. A usage metric report can be generated for any individual dashboard or report. In this

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Power BI MCSA Certification Training Tips – Part 11: Connecting to Excel Data

To obtain your MCSA: BI Reporting you need to pass two exams: 70-778 (Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI) and 70-779 (Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Excel). However, there is a huge overlap

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Power BI MCSA Certification Training Tips – Part 10: Split Columns by Digit to Non-digit

To obtain your MCSA: BI Reporting you need to pass two exams: 70-778 (Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI) and 70-779 (Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Excel). However, there is a huge overlap

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Power BI MCSA Certification Training Tips – Part 9: Split into Rows vs Columns

To obtain your MCSA: BI Reporting you need to pass two exams: 70-778 (Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI) and 70-779 (Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Excel). However, there is a huge overlap

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