Migration From Analysis Services Multidimensional – Your Feedback Needed!
Do you have Analysis Services Multidimensional cubes in production? Although I know it’s a long time since I last posted any Multidimensional/MDX content here I hope I still have some readers who do....
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View Native Query Now Works For Analysis Services Data Sources
If you’re familiar with the topic of query folding in Power Query, you’ll know that the View Native Query right-click option in the Applied Steps pane of the Power Query Editor can be used to show the...
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Power BI Dataset Refresh, Column Encoding And The First Partition
If you’ve been following some of my recent posts about improving Power BI refresh performance by partitioning tables you will have seen a lot of screenshots that look like the one below: It’s a...
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Excel Cube Functions, Dynamic Arrays And Lambdas, Part 1: Getting All The...
After my recent post on using Office Scripts and cube functions to generate Excel reports from Power BI data, Meagan Longoria asked me this question on Twitter: To which I can only reply: guilty as...
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Excel Cube Functions, Dynamic Arrays And Lambdas, Part 2: Returning Tables
In the first post in this series I showed how to use the new Excel Lambda helper functions to return an array containing all the items in a set. That isn’t very useful on its own, so in this post I’ll...
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Excel Cube Functions, Dynamic Arrays And Lambdas, Part 3: Grouping And...
In the last post in this series I showed how you can use Excel’s new Lambda helper functions to return tables. In this post I’ll show you how you can use them to return a dynamic array of CubeSet...
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How Defining Too Many Measures In A Live Connection Report Can Affect Power...
You probably know that it’s a best practice to build your Power BI datasets in a separate .pbix file from your reports – among other things it means that different people can develop the dataset and...
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Filtering An Excel Cube Function Report By A List Of Manually-Entered Values
In Power BI there’s a popular custom visual called “Filter by list” that lets you filter a Power BI report by any list of values that you paste into it. It can save you a lot of time in some...
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What’s New In Analysis Services 2022?
There was a time when a new release of SQL Server – and therefore a new release of SQL Server Analysis Services – was the most exciting thing in the world for me. New functionality! New things to blog...
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Reducing The Number Of Queries Generated By Excel Cube Function Reports On...
I am a big fan of using Excel cube functions for reporting on Power BI datasets, Analysis Services and Power Pivot: they allow for a lot more layout flexibility than PivotTables when building reports...
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