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Reading Time: < 1 minute Following a brilliant Hacktoberfest Scotland on Saturday 10th Oct, I’ve been in an out of some open-source projects this past week lining up some repos I want to contribute to for Hacktoberfest while preparing for the DataWeekender conference this coming...
Reading Time: < 1 minute With a well-timed (but much needed) holiday last week I’m just catching up with all the exciting announcements and news coming out of Microsoft’s Ignite conference. I’ve found a few good videos to quickly summarise what’s new and what I’ll...
Reading Time: 3 minutes CodeSnippets #4 With the introduction of Power BI Dataflows in April 2019 the ability to interrogate this new feature using the REST API landed soon after (unlike this blog post!). Like datasets, you can refresh your dataflows using the API....
Reading Time: 3 minutes For DATA:Scotland 2019 we wanted to make it as easy as possible for attendees to leave session feedback for this year’s speakers. It’s an important part of being a speaker and helps us improve our skills. At the same time,...
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Power BI REST API opens a wealth of capabilities in consuming metadata about your content as well as batch processing of security changes, content deployment and backups of deployed reports. Although I talk specifically about Power BI, these methods...
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s been a few months now since I last blogged, here or on SQLShack. I started as a Data Engineer with Incremental Group back in March and with SQLGLA prep heating up and the Call for Speakers blowing up my...
Reading Time: 4 minutes The functionality to cluster the Power BI Data Gateway for high availability was introduced with the November update of the Data Gateway. This has been in the works for a while though I must admit the workaround I describe back...
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’ve been working on Power BI administration a lot lately. It’s something I’ve used to begin implementing coding standards around PowerShell at my employer. Although I blog about the topic in some detail over on SQL Shack, I also decided...
Reading Time: < 1 minute Check out my post about Considerations for On-premises data in Power BI over on SQLShack
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is something I pulled in during a recent PoC of PowerBI. Its a very powerful built in feature of PowerBI that, I feel, has one visual draw back that I will document towards the end of this post. I...
