Zooming In on a Power BI Report
Have you ever tried to use your browser to zoom in on a visual in a Power BI report? If you simply published your report and then zoomed in,...
2021-02-18 (first published: 2021-02-11)
449 reads
Data Savvy
Granting ADLS Gen2 Access for Power BI Users via ACLs
It’s common that users only have access to certain folders in an Azure Data Lake Storage container. These permissions are provided not through Azure RBAC (role-based access control) roles...
2021-02-09 (first published: 2021-02-04)
181 reads
One Chart at A Time Video Series
Jon Schwabish over at PolicyViz has created great initiative called the One Chart at a Time Video Series. It’s an effort to expand readers’ graphic literacy through short videos...
2021-02-03 (first published: 2021-01-27)
548 reads
Retrieving Log Analytics Data with Data Factory
I’ve been working on a project where I use Azure Data Factory to retrieve data from the Azure Log Analytics API. The query language used by Log Analytics is...
2021-01-05 (first published: 2020-12-24)
379 reads
Workout Wednesdays for Power BI in 2021
I’m excited to announce that something new is coming to the Power BI community in 2021: Workout Wednesday! Workout Wednesday started in the Tableau community and is expanding to...
2020-12-30 (first published: 2020-12-18)
359 reads
Captioning Options for Your Online Conference
Many conferences have moved online this year due to the pandemic, and many attendees are expecting captions on videos (both live and recorded) to help them understand the content....
2020-12-08 (first published: 2020-11-24)
129 reads
DAX Logic and Blanks
A while back I was chatting with Shannon Lindsay on Twitter. She shares lots of useful Power BI tips there. She shared her syntax tip of the & operator...
2020-11-03 (first published: 2020-10-29)
280 reads
Stop Letting Accessibility Be Optional In Your Power BI Reports
We don’t talk about inclusive design nearly enough in the Power BI community. I was trying to recall the last time I saw a demo report (from Microsoft or...
2020-09-24 (first published: 2020-09-17)
291 reads
Fun with Power BI and Color Math
I recently published my color contrast report in the Power BI Data Stories Gallery. It allows you to enter two hex color values and then see the color contrast...
2020-09-01 (first published: 2020-08-20)
405 reads
I’m Speaking at Virtual PASS Summit 2020
PASS Summit has gone virtual this year, but that isn’t keeping PASS from delivering a good lineup of speakers and activities. I’m excited to be presenting a pre-con and...
2020-08-06
23 reads
Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Music
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
A New Word: Suente
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
Side Projects
Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...
Forums
Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Sql script replace and rearrange numbers
Hi everyone. I have this table and this information. (left side of the image)...