Power BI Weekly Newsletter Issue #252

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Data Prep

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

• Rick de Groot (@Rickmaurinus) highlights the release of the new book: The Definitive Guide to Power Query M
• On the Power BI blog, Nirupama Srinivasan (@MSPowerBI) explains how to Get data with Power Query available in Power BI Report Builder (Preview)
• Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) covers Power BI Paginated Reports That Connect To Web Services And Excel
• Chandeep Chhabra (@chandeep2786) explains how to Connect Excel / CSV files from SharePoint to Excel or Power BI
• Fowmy Abdulmuttalib (@ExcelFort) writes about Enhanced Data Profiling in Power Query: GUI and Table.Profile Function with 2nd Argument
• Paul Turley (@paul_turley) covers Power BI Direct Lake and DirectQuery in the Age of Fabric
• Michael Kovalsky writes about Direct Lake Migration
• Luca Liu describes Two ways to Union Tables - DAX and Power Query

Data Modeling

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

• Chandeep Chhabra (@chandeep2786) describes How to Create a Bridge Table for Many to Many Relationships
• On the Enterprise DNA blog, Enterprise Dna Experts (@EnterpriseDNA) explain How to Use Switch True Logic in Power BI
• Antriksh Sharma (@AntrikshShar) provides a CALCULATE Deep Dive

Report Authoring and Interactivity

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

• On the SQLBI blog, Alberto Ferrari (@FerrariAlberto) introduces EXPAND and COLLAPSE for visual calculations in Power BI
• Reid Havens (@HavensBI) describes Explosion Vs Erosion for Stacked Charts in Power BI
• Xinyi X covers How to use Tooltip to display breakdown data for a specified ranking
• On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science describes How to dynamically change the values of the X axis and Y axis in a chart in Power BI

Deployment, Security and Operations

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

• Patrick Leblanc (@GuyInACube) discusses Exploring Dynamic Subscriptions for Power BI reports
• Philipp Lenz (@lenz_philipp) writes about Dynamic subscriptions with email in Power BI / paginated reports – Part 2
• On the Purple Frog Systems blog, Tom Owen (@PurpleFrogSys) describes Deployment Pipelines in Power BI and Fabric

General

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

• Adam Saxton (@GuyInACube) talks about Copilot for Power BI: Your Ultimate Copilot Guide (with Carly Newsome)

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