Power BI Weekly Newsletter Issue #222

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Data Prep

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

• Ben Gribaudo (@bgribaudo) writes about Privacy Levels in Dataflows: Impacted by Staging?
• Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) discusses Understanding The “External table is not in the expected format” Error In Power Query In Power BI And Excel
• On the Enterprise DNA blog, Enterprise Dna Experts (@EnterpriseDNA) blogs about Power Query Google Sheets Connector: Explained + Examples
• Marc Lelijveld (@MarcLelijveld) describes how to Access OneLake files from Power BI Desktop
• Chandeep Chhabra (@chandeep2786) explains How to Learn M Language in Power Query | A Comprehensive Guide with 5 Structured Ideas
• On the phData blog, Zac Zinda explains How to Change Data Sources in Power BI
• On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science writes about AI for Identifying Images in Power BI - Just in Few Clicks Vision in Power BI
• Avi Singh (@powerbipro) shares a Power BI Ultimate Calendar Table / Date Table

Data Modeling

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

• On the Power BI community blog, Andrei Khaidarov writes about Unlocking the Power of RANKX: A Deep Dive into DAX Ranking
• On the MSSQLTips site, Nai Biao Zhou covers Learning DAX in Excel: A Step-by-Step Tutorial for Beginners
• Patrick Leblanc (@GuyInACube) explains how to Get your measures organized in Power BI
• Adam Saxton (@GuyInACube) describes Power BI has Copilot already? For DAX it does!
• On the phData blog, Spencer Baucke (@JSBaucke) talks about Creating a Measures Table in Power BI
• Antriksh Sharma (@AntrikshShar) describes how to Create Partitions in SSAS Tabular with Tabular Editor

Report Authoring and Interactivity

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

• Kurt Buhler (@kurtbuhler) describes How to set table or matrix column widths in a Power BI report
• Chandeep Chhabra (@chandeep2786) explains How to Create a Project Overlapping Timeline Dashboard in Power BI
• Andrzej Leszkiewicz (@avatorl) talks about Revolution in Power BI data visualization. Highly customized charts based on native matrix visuals.

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, Kay Unkroth (@MSPowerBI) announces automatic scaling for dataset scale-out public preview
• Also on the Power BI blog, Nikki Waghani (@NikkiWaghani) highlights the On-premises data gateway August 2023 release
• On the Power BI community blog, Ignacio Barrau (@ignacho_07) describes Moving from PBIRS to PBI Service reports thanks to SimplePBI and SwaggerAPI
• Wolfgang Strasser (@wstrasser) covers Testing Power BI row-level-security (RLS) got some improvements
• Kevin Chant (@kevchant) writes about Initial Microsoft Fabric Git integration tests for Power BI Reports
• Soheil Bakhshi (@biinsightnz) discusses Integrating Power BI with Azure DevOps Git, part 2: Local Machine Integration
• On the phData blog, Gavin Pedersen (@gavin_PD) describes How to Create a Power BI Workspace App
• Marc Lelijveld (@MarcLelijveld) discusses Unveiling Tenant Configuration in Fabric: Empowering User Exploration
• On the SQLBI blog, Marco Russo (@marcorus) talks about Managing hierarchical organizations in Power BI security roles
• Gilbert Quevauvilliers (@GilbertQue) discusses Part 2 – Storing the Log Analytics Queries in Azure Blob Storage (Power BI Query Usage and Performance Series)
• On the Purple Frog Systems blog, Nick Edwards (@PurpleFrogSys) explains how to Automate Power BI single table refresh using Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI APIs
• Also on the phData blog, Chaitanya Uday Kulkarni and Manish Garg describe How to Migrate Paginated Reports SSRS to Power BI Service with Snowflake

General

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

• On the Enterprise DNA blog, Sam McKay (@_EnterpriseDNA) discusses the Power BI Certification: Everything You Need to Know
• Purna (Chandoo) Duggirala (@r1c1) shares CP03: The Ugly Truth About Power BI (actually, 4 of them)
• On the Power BI blog, Lukasz Pawlowski (@lukasztweets) announces new ways to create connected tables in Excel connected to Power BI and shares a Heads up: Changes to Excel workbook support in Power BI workspaces
• Sam McKay (@_EnterpriseDNA) talks about the Old Way vs New Way - Power BI, Excel, and Code Interpreter

Useful Links

• Power BI Maturity Scorecard - 97% of the Fortune 500 are using Power BI. Only 20% of analytics deliver business value. How do you score?
• 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