Power BI Weekly Newsletter Issue #195

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Data Prep

Covering: Power Query (M), Dataflows, Data connectors, AI Insights

• On the Enterprise DNA blog, Melissa de Korte Enterprise Dna Expert shares Power BI Replace Text Tutorial: Conditional Full & Partial Replacement
• Antriksh Sharma (@AntrikshShar) shares 445, 454, or 544 Week table in Power BI and Excel
• Lars Schreiber (@SchreiberLars) covers So filterst Du richtig in Power Query [German]
• On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science describes How ChatGPT helps to write M Code in a PowerQuery | AI assistance for Power Query M code in Power BI
• Ben Gribaudo (@bgribaudo) covers Value.ReplaceType & Table Column Renames (Bug Warning)

Data Modeling

Covering: DAX (Measures & Calculated Tables/Columns), Relationships, Analysis Services, Composite models

• Reid Havens (@HavensBI) talks about New Relationship Pane Walkthrough for Power BI Desktop and discusses Relationship Editor Pane (Model View) in Power BI Desktop
• On the SQLBI blog, Alberto Ferrari (@FerrariAlberto) delves into Understanding blank row and limited relationships
• On the Towards Data Science blog, Salvatore Cagliari (@TDataScience) explains How to use FILTER in DAX the correct way
• Sam McKay (@_EnterpriseDNA) explains How To Use The GROUPBY Function In Power BI and explains how to Detect Abnormal Patterns In Behaviour Using DAX In Power BI [2023 Update]
• Brian Julius (@_EnterpriseDNA) explains How To Easily Create And Organize Multiple Measures At Once In Power BI
• Darren Gosbell (@darrengosbell) writes about Automatically generating measure descriptions for Power BI and Analysis Services with ChatGPT and Tabular Editor

Report Authoring and Interactivity

Covering: Layout and formatting, Visualizations, Interactivity, Themes, Mobile reports, Dashboards

• On the Power BI blog, Ikechukwu Edeagu (@MSPowerBI) announces Export to Excel Improvements for Matrix Visuals (GA)
• On the Enterprise DNA blog, Brian Julius (@_EnterpriseDNA) walks through Adding A Power BI SVG Visual On Your Report and discusses Using R In Power BI: Creating Complex Visuals
• On the MSSQLTips site, Harris Amjad (@mssqltips) explains How to create a Sankey Chart in Power BI Desktop
• Glen Leck (@BI_ographic) discusses Mind the Gap
• Gaelim Holland (@_EnterpriseDNA) explains How To Bring In Summary Statistics and Correlation Tables In Power BI Using Python

Deployment, Security and Operations

Covering: Workspaces and Apps, Template Apps, Deployment Pipelines, Gateways, Security, Sharing, Licences, Admin operations, Developer Tooling

• On the Power BI blog, Harleen Kaur (@MSPowerBI) announces Empower your application users to quickly explore their data with the new Power BI Embedding capabilities
• Amanda Rivera and Ted Pattison (@MSPowerBI) present Power BI Dev Camp Session 29 - Developing with the Power BI Quick Create SDK
• Also on the Power BI blog, Cookie McCray (@MSPowerBI) announces Availability Expansion of the SSRS Migration Tool to Power BI
• Patrick Leblanc (@GuyInACube) covers Publish/Migrate your RDL files from Power BI Report Server to the service
• Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) discusses Power BI Migration Tools: What They Can And Can’t Do
• Rui Romano (@RuiRomano) presents Power BI Dev Camp Session 28 - How To Monitor Your On-prem Power BI Gateways
• On the Enterprise DNA blog, Sam McKay (@_EnterpriseDNA) blogs about Power BI App: Changing The Paradigm In Data Management & Transformation
• Adam Saxton (@GuyInACube) discusses Dataset permissions required for App report in Power BI? What am I missing?
• On the Prologika blog, Teo Lachev (@tlachev) discusses Demystifying Power BI Dataset Scale-out
• On the Microsoft BI Tools blog, Joost van Rossum (@ssisjoost) describes Streaming data Azure & Power BI - Stream Analytics

General

Covering: Cross-topic announcements & feature summaries, Whitepapers, Community events, Learning Resources & Certifications, Podcasts, Sample reports, End-to-end walkthroughs

• On the Power BI blog, Ryan Majidimehr (@MSPowerBI) announces Power BI February 2023 Feature Summary
• Miguel Félix covers Atualização Power BI Fevereiro 2023 [Portuguese]
• Microsoft Power BI (@MSPowerBI) announces Power BI Update - February 2023
• On Acuity Training, Ben Richardson (@AcuityTraining) shares Power BI Tips & Tricks: 15 Experts Give Their Top 3 Tips

Useful Links

• Azure Weekly - Interested in Azure? Sign up to our sister newsletter Azure Weekly to receive all the week's Azure news
• M language reference - Official Power Query M Reference
• DAX Studio - Useful open source tool for executing and analyzing DAX queries, founded by Darren Gosbell
• DAX Guide - Your go-to reference on the DAX language, created by the SQLBI team
• Power BI Visuals Reference - An exhaustive list (as of Sep. 2018) of all Power BI native & custom visuals, placed into separate categories, again created by the SQLBI team
• Report Theme Generator - A handy report theme generator created by the Power BI Tips and Tricks team
• Power BI Theme templates - Detailed Power BI Theme templates for all the native visuals, created by David Eldersveld
• Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star - Free, detailed eBook to get up and running with Power BI, written by Reza Rad
• Power BI Architecture diagram - An informative Power BI Architecture diagram, created by Dustin Ryan
• Power BI Whitepapers - A list of official Power BI whitepapers, covering Security, Premium deployment, Advanced Analytics and more