Monitoring and Auditing your Azure Analysis Services
I have been using SSAS for years, started years before I started at Microsoft, but most of my real world experience is around using SSAS... Read more
Category: Analysis Services
On demand webinar: Strengthen Your Data Modeling Skills with Power BI
I recently did this webinar for Power BI in the studios in Redmond. The webinar goes into details on the data model with Power Query,... Read more
Separate business names from technical names using SSAS and Power BI
I have heard this question come up now and then where someone wants to separate the names and columns seen by users from the names... Read more
Using variables to split up your calculations
Got a DAX question recently that I solved using variables. When I walked them through the solution someone exclaimed “I didn’t know you can do... Read more
Dynamic relationships based on the selection
Got an interesting question recently where someone wanted to be able to switch the relationships automatically based on which slicer was selected. Take the following... Read more
To DirectQuery or Not to DirectQuery, that is the question..
Usually I start my blog posts with an interesting question I got, this time we will do the reverse. I want to talk about a... Read more
Change your Power BI report to point to an external SSAS model
A common questions I get is to change the connection string to from my report to SSAS after I move my Power BI desktop file... Read more
Currency conversion in DAX for Power BI and SSAS
Another interesting question that came up recently is how to do currency conversion in Power BI. My colleague Jeffrey Wang had a very neat solution... Read more