Data modelling and DAX
Last week I was honoured to take part in the latest edition of the Power BI Dev Camp which is run by my colleague Ted Patterson. It was a fun session which I enjoyed. As part of the Dev camp, I walked through some of my recent Visual Studio Code based blog posts on how … Continue reading DAX Formatter tool for Power BI Desktop
My last few articles have focused on using Visual Studio Code to build a series of scripts to help manage Analysis Services data models. As part of this work, I’ve found Visual Studio Code to be extremely helpful in other ways too, such as a very powerful text editor with many features you may find … Continue reading Use Visual Studio Code to Auto-format JSON
If you ever work with TMSL based scripts (basically big chunks of text in JSON format) in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), you may find that SSMS sometimes auto formats your JSON after you paste some script into the Text Editor. This can be mildly frustrating, but also potentially dangerous if elements are stripped without … Continue reading Disable auto-format of JSON in SSMS
For this article, I want to share a way for you to create your own Power BI “Helper Tool” and register it as an external tool in Power BI. This article carries on from some of my recent articles on how you can use Visual Studio Code to help automate specific tasks by taking advantage … Continue reading Use Visual Studio Code to create Power BI External Tool
