(Livestream Replay) Microsoft HATES Greg Deckler!

Come see a demonstration and learn about the first Power BI external tool to extend Power BI Desktop’s Quick Measure functionality, Microsoft Hates Greg’s Quick Measures (MSHGQM), with it’s author Greg Deckler, the king of Community.PowerBI.com’s Quick Measure Gallery. With over 120 built-in quick measures and the ability to easily add your own custom quick measures, MSHGQM can help create simple to complex DAX expressions more quickly and easily than ever before!

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Greg Deckler is a Vice President at Fusion Alliance and has been a professional technology consultant for over 27 years. Greg is a six-time Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and an active member of the Power BI Community site with over 5,000 solutions authored and almost 200 Quick Measure Gallery submissions. Greg has authored 4 books on Power BI and is working on his fifth.

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Tabular Editor 3: [DAX] Debugger Walkthrough in Tabular Editor 3! - with Daniel Otykier

It is no secret that DAX is a relatively complex language which is difficult to master. Most data model developers have probably experienced a situation, where the DAX code did not return the expected result. In this situation, it is helpful to break down the code, variable by variable and function call by function call, to better understand what is going on.

Until now, this "breakdown" of the code was a tedious and time consuming task, which often involved capturing DAX queries executed by client tools, in order to break them down and execute smaller pieces of the queries in DAX Studio or SQL Server Management Studio.

Tabular Editor 3 introduces the concept of the DAX debugger, which is a tool that makes the process of stepping into the DAX code of your model, much, much easier! At a conceptual level, the debugger is similar to traditional IDE debuggers, such as the one found in Visual Studio when developing C# applications.

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Daniel is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and CTO of Tabular Editor ApS – the company behind the tool.

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Creating a Heatmap Chart Combo Using Deneb - with Daniel Marsh-Patrick

Daniel Marsh-Patrick joins me once again to walk through creating an awesome Heatmap and chart combo visual using the Deneb bespoke visual creator he developed for Power B!

Deneb is a Power BI visual that exposes these languages and lets you bind data from your model to them. We'll spend some time exploring the tool, showing you how to get started, and creating some simple examples.

If you like the visual please leave a review on AppSource as it helps support Daniel and the development of Deneb!

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Daniel Marsh-Patrick joins me once again to walk through creating an awesome Heatmap and chart combo visual using the Deneb bespoke visual creator he developed for Power B!

Deneb is a Power BI visual that exposes these languages and lets you bind data from your model to them. We'll spend some time exploring the tool, showing you how to get started, and creating some simple examples.

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(Livestream Replay) Deploying Reports with PBI-Tools - with Mathias Thierbach

PBI-Tools is an open-source project bringing source control capabilities to Power BI developers. The days of black-box .pbix files are over, and Power BI projects can now be run with established engineering practices such as: change control, branches, and CI/CD pipelines. In November, PBI-Tools added a new deployment feature for Power BI reports, based on declarative deployment manifests (also held in source control). You'll understand the basics of PBI-Tools, and see the new 'deploy' action in practice, both on the desktop as well as in Azure DevOps.

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In 2015, after having spent over ten years as a Software Developer and Architect with Microsoft technologies, Mathias Thierbach moved into the Microsoft BI space. He soon landed on Power BI, but also realized quickly that the development and engineering tools and practices were nothing like the ones well established in software development. This is how pbi-tools started as a project, filling this gap in tooling. Today, leading a growing data management team at YouGov, he experiences the benefits of those efforts every day. Having open sourced the project in fall of 2021, Mathias spends a lot of his free time bringing those practices to the wider Power BI community now.

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