Video by: Reid Havens
Let's review the NEW relationship Pane (in preview as of February 2023) that can be found in the Model View for Power BI Desktop! We'll compare it to the traditional relationship pop up window as well! Tune in to learn more.
(Livestream Replay) [DAX] Best Practices 101 for Optimization & Performance - with Alberto Ferrari
ABSTRACT 📄
Despite being usually very fast, DAX can be optimized, like any other computer system. Optimizing DAX requires a deeper understanding of the internals of the engine, because most optimizations are not intuitive. We will talk about the basics of optimizations, looking at some examples of code and discussing together ideas and options to make the code faster.
GUEST BIO 👤
Alberto started working with SQL Server in 2000 and immediately his interest focused on Business Intelligence. He and Marco Russo created sqlbi.com, where they publish extensive content about Business Intelligence.
Alberto published several books about Analysis Services, Power BI, and Power Pivot. He is a Microsoft MVP and he earned the SSAS Maestro title, the highest level of certification on Microsoft Analysis Services technology.
Today, Alberto's main activities are in the delivery of DAX and data modeling workshops for Power BI and Analysis Services all around the world. Alberto offers consulting services on large and complex data warehouses to provide assessments and validation of project analysis or to perform specific problem-solving activities.
Alberto is a well-known speaker at many international conferences, like PASS Summit, Sqlbits, and Microsoft Ignite. He loves to be on stage both at large events and at smaller user groups meetings, exchanging ideas with other SQL and BI fans. When traveling for work, he likes to engage with local user groups to provide evening sessions about his favorite topics. Thus, you can easily meet Alberto by looking up local Power BI user groups during scheduled courses.
Outside of SQLBI, most of Alberto's personal time is spent practicing video games, in the vain hope of eventually beating his son.
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Intro to Categorical Slicers & Options in Power BI
Video by: Reid Havens
Learn about all the configuration options, default publishing considerations, and design choices when adding a categorical slicer (filter) to a Power BI report! Tune in to learn more!
(Livestream Replay) Making The Most Out of The Power Platform - with Nicky van Vroenhoven
ABSTRACT 📄
Have you always wanted to edit your data in Power BI, like in Excel?
Do you want (some of) your users to be able to refresh the Power BI dataset behind a report?
Do you want to refresh your Power BI dataset as soon as the connected dataflow is refreshed?
Now you can! With a combination of Power BI, Power Apps and Power Automate.
In this live demo session I will demonstrate the Microsoft Power Platform products working together to create easy, usable, and interactive data solutions.
GUEST BIO 👤
Nicky van Vroenhoven is a BI professional focused at the Microsoft stack and a Data Platform MVP. He mainly works with Power BI, Power Platform and T-SQL. Nicky started working with SQL Server and SSIS 2005 in the DWH space, and later moved from Power Pivot to Power BI. After working 10 years in BI-consultancy jobs in several industries and companies, he worked for 5 years as a Power BI Administrator at a wealth management bank, and he is currently working as Unit Lead Power BI at Powerdobs in The Netherlands.
Nicky has spoken at several User Groups, SQL Saturday Events, the Power BI World Tour and SQLBits. In addition he enjoys tweeting and blogging about topics like Power BI and Power Platform at his website below.
In his spare time Nicky like's to go running, play chess or try to improve his Rubik's cube record. He is also a husband, father of 3 and a (former) ballroom dancer!
