Data modelling and DAX
Power BI doesn’t yet have a feature that allows end-users to turn on/off the ability to process calculations for visuals on a report page until they are ready. Most of the time, this is perfectly fine – however, in some instances, it can be handy to disable long-running and heavy calculations from running. At the … Continue reading Power BI – Pause/Resume calculations with Apply All feature
Have you ever wondered why a Power BI dataset refresh was taking so long? And more specifically, how much time did the refresh spend on various sub-tasks that aren’t that visible to you via the web-portal? This article shares a technique you can use to capture events fired during a Power BI refresh and use … Continue reading Visualise your Power BI Refresh
In this article, I’m going to show how you can use Visual Studio Code to run queries against a Power BI model. Usually, this is the kind of task you would use the excellent DAX Studio for, but sometimes you have a requirement that doesn’t quite fit DAX Studio. Using VSCode provides a quick and … Continue reading Using Visual Studio Code to query Power BI
My last blog introduced the idea of using Microsoft Visual Studio Code to work with Power BI Models. For this article, I build on that idea by showing how you can use a TOM based script to automatically generate measures in your model Power BI (or Azure Analysis Services) model. For simplicity, the example in … Continue reading Automatically create measures in Power BI using VS Code
