Kasper On BI

As of this month Power BI finally supports filtering slicers down to only show rows that have fact data. Before the only thing you could do to achieve this was some workaround like: I described here where you filter down the dimension using a calc table. The other approach was to use Bi Directional cross filtering which would filter down the dimension table appropriately. This leads to performance issues though. Now you can use a... Read more

I am very happy that my new book has been released today! This is a brand new update to the book I released 5 years and now covers everything Power BI. You can order the ebook (a DRM-free copy of the book in all three popular e-book formats: PDF, ePub and Mob) or printed version directly from the publisher here. You can also get it on Amazon of course but the prices are a bit... Read more

A quick hack today. Got this question from someone who needed to be able to update a report and show users that something had changed. This is easy when you have access to a database and can add data to it but in this case that was not possible. So I came up with a hacky (and great :P) way to do this. and wanted to share it in case it came handy in your... Read more

A short post today. Someone recently  asked me: “How can I show the date and time this data has been refreshed last in my report and dashboard?”.  Here are 2 simple tricks to help you visualize this. Show last refresh date\time To show the date and time of the refresh we need to store the date and time of the time refresh runs in the model itself so we can show it in a visual.... Read more