Power BI Weekly Issue 173: 6th September 2022
Only one update this week, which is a round-up of What’s New in Datamarts – August 2022.
Elsewhere this week, Jonathan Law has provided A deep dive into Power BI incremental refresh feature, Spencer Bauckle has explained How to Set up Power BI Gateways on Azure Virtual Machines and Reid Havens has described Changing a Report Tooltip Visuals Axis Field with a Slicer.
Data Prep
Covering: Power Query (M), Dataflows, Data connectors, AI Insights
- On the Power BI blog, Charles Webb (@CharlesWebb22) announces What’s New in Datamarts – August 2022
- Laura Graham-Brown (@Laura_GB) describes Power BI Dataverse Connector – July 2022 Update
- On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science talks about Auto Calculation in Power BI using Power Query
- Melissa de Korte (@_EnterpriseDNA) explains How To Do Multiple Exact Match Text Replacements In Power Query
- Paul Turley (@paul_turley) walks through Getting Data Into Shape for Reporting with Power BI
Data Modeling
Covering: DAX (Measures & Calculated Tables/Columns), Relationships, Analysis Services, Composite models
- On the Power BI community blog, Changqing Gao describes How to use DAX to quickly create a sample table
- Max Wikström (@maxwiks) describes how to Level up your Power BI model using DAX Studio – Part 2
- Patrick Leblanc (@GuyInACube) describes The Tale of Two Caches
Report Authoring and Interactivity
Covering: Layout and formatting, Visualizations, Interactivity, Themes, Mobile reports, Dashboards
- Adam Saxton (@GuyInACube) talks about Conditional Formatting with Field Parameters in Power BI
- Reid Havens (@HavensBI) describes Changing a Report Tooltip Visuals Axis Field with a Slicer
- Ignacio Barrau (@ignacho_07) covers [PowerBi][UI] Tarjetas animadas con HTML y CSS [Spanish]
- Daniel Marsh-Patrick (@the_d_mp) writes about Using luminance in Vega-Lite with Deneb
- Bas Dohmen (@HowToPowerBI) talks about Gradient Color Overlay in Power BI #Shorts
- On the Tessellation Tech blog, Hayley Hadges highlights Web Traffic Power BI Dashboard Example
- Sam McKay (@_EnterpriseDNA) explains how to Get More Productive In Power BI With These Speed Development Techniques
Deployment, Security and Operations
Covering: Workspaces and Apps, Template Apps, Deployment Pipelines, Gateways, Security, Sharing, Licences, Admin operations, Developer Tooling
- Jonathan Law covers A deep dive into Power BI incremental refresh feature
- Hima Bindu Marri (@sivahimabindu) describes how to Load bulk data from Power BI to SQL Server
- Matt Allington (@ExceleratorBI) describes how to Extract Multiple Pages from Web
- Gilbert Quevauvilliers (@GilbertQue) describes how Checking your Power BI Pro or Power BI Premium Per User licenses could save you money
- On the Tessellation Tech blog, Spencer Baucke (@JSBaucke) explains How to Set up Power BI Gateways on Azure Virtual Machines
- Dan English (@denglishbi) describes Power BI Data Driven Subscriptions with Power Automate – Follow up using Dataset
- On the Perficient blog, Ankit Jangle (@Perficient) describes 10 Steps to Writeback in Power BI Using Power Apps
General
Covering: Cross-topic announcements & feature summaries, Whitepapers, Community events, Learning Resources & Certifications, Podcasts, Sample reports, End-to-end walkthroughs
- The Knee-Deep in Tech team (@KneeDeepinTech) present Podcast episode 205
- On the BIFocal podcast, John Patrick White and Jason Himmelstein (@BIFocalShow) present Episode 234 - Interview with Alex Powers
- Reid Havens (@HavensBI) covers Co-Creation: Defining Reporting Requirements with Users (with Kurt Buhler)
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