Hidden Secrets of the PowerBI User Activity Logs - Template Apps
Ever seen the same report ID show up multiple time in the same tenant when reviewing your Activity Logs? How can that be? Aren’t report IDs unique? ...
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2024
Customizing Detect Data Changes in PowerBI Incremental Refresh
Detect Data Changes is great for optimizing refreshes, but what happens if you dont have a date field to flag modifications?
2023
Fixing the workspace is in a different region error when setting up Git Integration in Fabric
Resolving the error: This workspace is in a different region. Go to the workspace admin settings to enable cross-region connections.
Minimizing Source Queries in PowerBI
If you’ve ever worked with big data in PowerBI (and I mean BIG data) you’ll know the pain that can arise from having many slicer options for your users. E...
2022
Demystifying PowerBI Licensing Part 2 - vCore Pools and Premium Capacities
Once upon a time, in the land of PowerBI Premium, if you purchased a P1 SKU, you deployed a P1 capacity. If you bought a P2 SKU, you deployed a P2 capacity....
Demystifying PowerBI Licensing Part 1 - The Main Concepts
Why does licensing have to be so complicated? When I am asked that question, I often respond with It’s not “complicated” … it’s “flexible”! And while this...
Utilizing Cognitive Services for Dynamic Data Masking in PowerBI
It’s no secret that PowerBI doesn’t support Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) out of the box. So what do we do if we need to include PII data in our reports? Th...
PowerBI Incremental Refresh in the Age of Data Lake Houses
Data lake houses are becoming more popular. This means that as business analysts we need to get more comfortable with this data lake architecture and how t...