Power BI Weekly
Issue #288 - 10th December 2024
Quiet week from the Power BI team this week as many start winding down for the holiday period. Just the one update, which is a reminder about the Power BI in Teams – Teams activity analytics report deprecation, with the deprecation date now being extended by a month (to the end of January). From the community this week, Marco Russo has written about how to handle BLANK in date columns and DAX time intelligence functions, Chris Webb has showed a clever way of Refreshing A Power BI Semantic Model With Eventstreams, Pipelines And Activator, and Eugene Meidinger has written a concise blog describing Fabric Licensing from Scratch.
🛠️ Data Prep
- On the Data Bear blog, Annamarie Van Wyk (@annamarie_wyk) blogs about SQL Stored Procedures in Power BI
🧩 Data Modeling
- On the SQLBI blog, Marco Russo (@marcorus) talks about BLANK in date columns and DAX time intelligence functions
- Samrat Majumder describes how to Display Hierarchy data while showing cross direction ratio
- On the Data Bear blog, Boniface Muchendu (@DataBearLTD) covers Optimizing Power BI Performance: Essential Tools and Techniques
- Parul Sagar (@parulsagar) describes how to Unlock Advanced Insights with Power BI Window Functions and writes about a Running Total vs. Rolling Total: Understanding the Key Differences
📊 Report Authoring and Interactivity
- Bas Dohmen (@HowToPowerBI) explains how to Make Your KPI Cards Flip in Power BI
- On the Business Intelligist blog, Nikil Prabhakar describes Super Filter: The Ultimate Slicer Upgrade for Power BI
- On the Power BI community blog, Alexander Grekov (@barritown) describes Experimental Custom Pie Chart in Power BI
🚀 Deployment, Security and Operations
- On the Power BI blog, Efrat Mininberg covers Power BI in Teams – Teams activity analytics report deprecation
- Pat Mahoney (@mahoneypa) describes how to Quickly convert your Power BI import model to Direct Lake mode
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) blogs about Refreshing A Power BI Semantic Model With Eventstreams, Pipelines And Activator
- Reid Havens (@HavensBI) talks about Introduction to Power BI Deployment Pipelines
- Eugene Meidinger (@sqlgene) describes Fabric Licensing from Scratch
🌐 General
- Avi Singh (@powerbipro) hosts Scaling Power BI Analytics for Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain (with Manuel Fuentes and Nidhi Johnson)
- On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science (@learn_scitech) shares Free Training for Power BI by Microsoft - A Complete Guide | PL-300 Exam Preparation