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In this post I want to share a nifty Power BI fix in Synapse Studio that I found. So that you can link to Power BI workspaces that are in other Azure accounts. To clarify, Synapse Studio is the management application that comes with Azure Synapse Analytics. In order to use Synapse Studio, you must … Read more
In this post I want to cover an Azure Test Plans example for Power BI as part of a series of posts. It also helps to keep a promise I made. This post is the third in a series of posts about how Azure Test Plans can be used for deployments to various Data Platform … Read more
In this post I want to cover an Azure Test Plans example for Azure Synapse Analytics as part of a series of posts. This post is the second in a series of posts about how Azure Test Plans can be used for deployments to various Data Platform services. You can find links to the other … Read more
In this post I want to cover creating one Power BI report for both Azure Boards and GitHub. Because I covered it in a session recently. In a previous post I covered using Azure DevOps Analytics Views and Power BI to create Sprint review dashboards. During that post I showed how you can use Analytics … Read more
In this post I want to cover learning more about three areas for the MVP Challenge. Which are accessibility, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. By the end of this post, you will know what the MVP Challenge is and what I did to complete it. Along the way you will find out various things. Like … Read more
In this post I want to do a five minute crash course about Synapse Studio. Because I have recently been asked to do this by colleagues. In addition, I want to clear up some confusion about what you need to do before you can access Synapse Studio. For those who are not aware, Synapse Studio … Read more
In this post I want to cover using Azure DevOps Analytics Views and Power BI to create Sprint review dashboards. Because it can be useful. In fact, I recently did a demo of this for Data Saturday Pordenone. By the end of this post, you will know how you can use Analytics Views and Power … Read more
In this post I want to cover a couple of things to watch out for if deploying Power BI Report Server. So that it helps others who may encounter issues. A while back I wrote about how SQL Server DBA’s can make use of Power BI Report Server here. Therefore, I thought I better write … Read more
For this post I want to cover how SQL Server DBA’s can use Power BI Report Server. So that others have ideas on how to use it. In a previous post I went through a quick introduction of Power BI Report Server. With this in mind, I have decided to do a follow up on … Read more
In this post I want to do a quick introduction to Power BI Report Server. Which is a version of Power BI that you can install on a server. To be honest with you todays post was going to be about something completely different. However, I’ve been asked a few times about this recently. I … Read more