Azure Weekly - Power BI Weekly #251 - 26th March 2024
Power BI Weekly Newsletter Issue #251
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Welcome to the 251st edition of Power BI Weekly. Move aside SQLBits, it's FabCon week this week, and there have already been some huge announcements on the Fabric side to sink your teeth into. Grab a drink and take a read of Arun's all-encompassing blog here: Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference to get an overview of all the new and updated features. A few of the bigger ones being that Mirroring is supported in Public Preview (for Cosmos DB, Azure SQL DB and Snowflake), you can now access on-premises data using the on-premises Data Gateway in Data Factory pipelines, and you can have Folders in the Workspace View! More specifically to Power BI, we've also been given the Power BI March 2024 Feature Summary, which mainly comprises a handful of incremental improvements/updates to existing features.
Elsewhere this week, Patrick Leblanc has shared a video about Decoding Direct Lake: The Truth Behind DirectQuery Fallback, Paul Turley has written a great blog around Moving from Power BI to Microsoft Fabric, and Erik Svensen has shown a clever way to Combine visual calculations and numeric parameters to create a dynamic moving average period.
Finally, Barry has written a great blog reflecting on SQLbits 2024 - The Best Bits (whereby I'm only now realising just how many photos the man takes). All in all, it was a wonderful conference, wonderfully run with wonderful people. Hope to see you there next year!
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Data Prep
Covering: Power Query (M), Dataflows, Data connectors, AI Insights
- Adam Saxton (@GuyInACube) describes How to connect to Microsoft Fabric Items from Power BI Desktop?
- Patrick Leblanc (@GuyInACube) discusses Decoding Direct Lake: The Truth Behind DirectQuery Fallback
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) talks about Best Practices For Power BI On Databricks Webinar
Data Modeling
Covering: DAX (Measures & Calculated Tables/Columns), Relationships, Analysis Services, Composite models
- On the SQLBI blog, Marco Russo (@marcorus) blogs about Vpax Obfuscator and DAX Optimizer – Unplugged #57
- On the SQL Server Central blog, Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) explains How to Optimize Power BI Semantic Model Performance with Vertipaq Analyzer
- Chandeep Chhabra (@chandeep2786) describes How to Perform VLOOKUP in Power BI and talks about Who bought A but not B? . . . (Pattern Analysis in Power BI)
Report Authoring and Interactivity
Covering: Layout and formatting, Visualizations, Interactivity, Themes, Mobile reports, Dashboards
- Erik Svensen (@donsvensen) delves into Power BI – Combine visual calculations and numeric parameters to create a dynamic moving average period
- Also on the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science explains How to calculate moving average at visual level in Power BI without using complex DAX measure
- Andrzej Leszkiewicz (@avatorl) covers HTML/CSS in core Power BI visuals
- Reid Havens (@HavensBI) describes Turning Beast to Beauty: Removing Chart Junk in Power BI
Deployment, Security and Operations
Covering: Workspaces and Apps, Template Apps, Deployment Pipelines, Gateways, Security, Sharing, Licences, Admin operations, Developer Tooling
- Chris Wagner (@KratosBi) describes Everything About Power BI Security
- Philipp Lenz (@lenz_philipp) writes about Dynamic subscriptions with email in Power BI – Part 1
- Nikil Prabhakar wonders Is Data Activator ready for Prime Time?
- Ignacio Barrau (@ignacho_07) covers [Fabric] Data Activator - Triggers y alerta instantánea [Spanish]
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, Saveen Reddy (@MSPowerBI) shares the Power BI March 2024 Feature Summary
- Paul Turley (@paul_turley) walks through Moving from Power BI to Microsoft Fabric
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
- PowerQuery How - Alternative M Language Reference created by Rick de Groot, including improved function explanations, code formatting, practical examples and further reading
- 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
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