This week we had our first in-person PASSM (MN SQL Server) user group meeting. I was holding off on doing my presentation until we met in-person. The presentation I did was the one I did back in ...
https://denglishbi.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/passmn-march-2024-presentation-follow-up/
This past Saturday I was able to attend, present, and get connected with the community at the M365 Twin Cities Fall 2023 Community Days event. I haven’t presented at this event since Nov 2011 s...
https://denglishbi.wordpress.com/2023/11/13/m365-twin-cities-fall-2023-community-days-follow-up/
This is a bit overdue and a follow up to a few other posts I have regarding using Service Principal authentication with Power BI reports Power BI using Service Principal with Synapse SQL Pool an...
This past weekend I had the pleasure to present at Minnesota SQLSaturday 2023 and it finally returned to in-person event after four years! It was really great to be able to return to normal and h...
https://denglishbi.wordpress.com/2023/10/02/minnesota-sqlsaturday-2023-1054-follow-up/
Hello #SQLFamily, we are very excited that this year we will be back in-person for the Minnesota SQLSaturday event that will be held once again at Saint Paul College on September 30th SQL Saturda...
Last month there was a new update that has been made that provides support for drillthrough report actions in the Power BI service (Microsoft Fabric)! Those of you who are familiar with SQL Serve...
https://denglishbi.wordpress.com/2023/06/15/drillthrough-support-in-paginated-reports-now-available/
So back in December I did an initial post about the Azure Analysis Services (AAS) Migration to Power BI Premium Experience and then in February I did a follow up Power BI Report Source Redirect...
This is a follow up to the post Azure Analysis Services (AAS) Migration to Power BI Premium Experience that I did back in December. In that post I mentioned the following towards the end of the ...
Over the past month couple of months I got the opportunity to test out the new migration experience that was just made available for Public Preview this past month during the PASS Data Community ...
In this post I just wanted to show the ability to use the Delta Lake format that is very common now with Power BI. I will go over a quick example of creating the files to reference, building a vi...
I thought I would do a short post outlining my career journey up to the point where I finally was hired and accepted a position to join Microsoft❤️I will try and keep it brief because along t...
https://denglishbi.wordpress.com/2022/09/29/my-career-journey-leading-up-to-microsoft/
In my last post I went over using a Service Principal account to access a Synapse SQL Pool with Power BI. I even showed how you could go across different tenants in my example. In this post inste...
In this post I will go over a topic that is frequently asked about and that is using a Service Principal account with Power BI when connecting to data sources. Currently today none of the built-i...
https://denglishbi.wordpress.com/2022/09/14/power-bi-using-service-principal-with-synapse-sql-pool/
In the last post I went over using Power Automate to perform a data driven report subscription using a Paginated report referencing a Power BI dataset. The flow referenced an Excel file with the ...
In the last post I went over using Power Automate to perform a data driven report subscription using a Paginated report referencing an AAS database. The flow referenced an Excel file with the inf...