Since conditional formatting was released for Power BI, I have seen countless examples of bar charts that have a gradient color fill. If you aren’t careful about the gradient...
2024-02-07 (first published: 2024-01-23)
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A couple of weeks ago, I encountered a DAX question that I had not previously considered. They had a situation where there were two paths between two tables: on...
2024-01-24 (first published: 2024-01-09)
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While a private endpoint and vNets are preferred, sometimes we need to configure Azure SQL Database or Azure Storage to allow use of public endpoints. In that case, an...
2024-01-10 (first published: 2024-01-02)
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I’ve been building lakehouses using Databricks Unity catalog for a couple of clients. Overall, I like the technology, but there are a few things to get used to. This...
2023-12-06 (first published: 2023-11-22)
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Widgets provide a way to parameterize notebooks in Databricks. If you need to call the same process for different values, you can create widgets to allow you to pass...
2023-10-13 (first published: 2023-09-28)
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I have a client who was upgrading some servers from pre-2022 versions of SQL Server to SQL Server 2022 CU7. They had some multidimensional SSAS cubes that were to...
2023-09-13 (first published: 2023-08-18)
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This week, I was working with a client who requested I use the Segoe UI font in their Power BI report. The report contained a mix of core visuals...
2023-09-06 (first published: 2023-08-17)
105 reads
If you are using Power BI to connect to a PaaS resource on a virtual network in Azure (including private endpoints), you need a data gateway. While you can...
2023-08-21 (first published: 2023-08-01)
723 reads
I recently created a treemap in Power BI for a Workout Wednesday challenge. Originally, I had set out to make a different treemap, but I ran into some limitations...
2023-08-07 (first published: 2023-07-14)
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One of the nice things about the Microsoft Connector for Oracle is that it doesn’t require installation of an Oracle client. But because of this, you may not have...
2023-06-21 (first published: 2023-06-03)
312 reads
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Hi everyone. I have this table and this information. (left side of the image)...