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I just published a new blog post on SQLBI. You can read it at this link: http://www.sqlbi.com/blog/marco/2017/08/28/local-dax-measures-in-powerbi-reports-are-not-visible-from-excel/
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Microsoft recently released the Analyze in Excel feature, which allows you to connect an Excel pivot table to a data model published on Power BI. I think/hope that Microsoft will enhance this feature to extend its current limits. For example, it does not allow you to connect a live model based on an on-premises SSAS Tabular server through Power BI ...
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Today I observed an issue on a notebook where Excel 2016 was installed and then removed, going back to Excel 2013.
After this operation, workbooks having a Power Pivot data model were working correctly by navigating data in PivotTables, but any operation in the Power Pivot window (such as adding columns, tables, or editing ...
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I recently write a small article on SQLBI to describe how to create a DAX measure that search for items that have all the items selected in a slicer, instead of any of them. For example, you might want to create a measure that display how many customers bought at least one product for each of the categories selected in a slicer. You cannot ...
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I had to do something in Excel today that might be useful to other folks so sharing it here.
I've got a A4 sheet sellotaped to my desk that tells me the start and end date of each fiscal week in our fiscal year. Its useful but its only for 2015 and moreover I could do with the information in digital form rather than dead tree form. I figured I ...
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The August 2015 update of Power BI Desktop added two important features for existing Excel and Analysis Services users:Import Excel Power BI artifacts (Data Model, Queries, Power View) into a new Power BI Desktop fileLive Analysis Services Connections: Ability to change the database from Edit Queries dialogIn case you didn't try it before, ...
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Thanks to Darren Gosbell we have DAX Studio 2.2. In this new release:Tracing (query plans and server timings) available for Power PivotBasic implementation of IntellisenseConnect to Multidimensional SSAS serversSupport for multiple Power BI Desginer instancesHighlight unnatural hierarchies (read here why this is so important for ...
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An interesting experience with Office Click-to-Run is that trusting it to install updates the night before a conference where you are a speaker. I’m writing this blog post while Alberto Ferrari is delivering its part of the preconference training day at SQL Bits about how to create a complete solution in Power BI. But I think it’s important to ...
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Calculating the number of new and returning customers is a recurring question. I would say this is a “classical” Business Intelligence problem, very common in marketing department. I worked on these problems with many customers, with small and large datasets, and I wrote a DAX Pattern “New and Returning Customers” showing how to calculate: New ...
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During the keynote of the PASS Business Analytics Conference, Amir Netz presented the new forecasting capabilities in Power View for Office 365. I immediately tried the new feature (which was immediately available, a welcome surprise in a Microsoft announcement for a new release) and I had several issues trying to use existing data models.
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