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Learning Guide: Microsoft Azure Data Engineering – Ingest and Transform Data
The Ingestion and Transforming of data in Microsoft’s Azure Platform can cover a wide variety of topics a Microsoft Azure Data Engineer needs to know. This post covers some must-have documentation, tutorials, and demos to help you through the topic.
Introducing Power BI Object-level Security
This walk-through and resource list will provide an introduction of Power BI’s Object-Level Security (OLS) and when combined with Row-Level security (RLS), you can secure and hide specific metrics, measures, tables, or columns from report viewers when using Roles.
Top 11 Data Announcements from Build (2021)
There were several interesting Data & AI announcements that came out of Microsoft Build 2021. I put together this summary of 11 interesting and includes links to both the announcements and other follow-on information.
Power BI Tutorial – How to DAX: Distinct Count and Filters – How many Open Cases do I Have Today?
Being a Power BI enthusiast, I always find DAX a challenge but have found success by keeping to a couple of simple tricks. In this Power BI Tutorial, we review my DAX development workflow through an example case where we will use Power BI Desktop to create a KPI measure
Azure Data & AI Newsletter (May 2021)
This article is a summary newsletter covering some of the news, announcements, new resources published by Microsoft this month in the Azure Data & AI space, including Azure Dev Ops and Synapse integrations walkthroughs.
How to Pick the Perfect Color Combination for Power BI
Once you have your data, the most significant part of the decision process could be the most important; choosing a color scheme. This article will cover a couple of great starting places and resources for your Power BI visualization.
“Done is Better than Perfect”: Peter McKinnon
Will drop a quote I find each week into a quick post. One that I find inspired me and pushed me to take a positive action.
5 Ideas to Rediscover Your Inspiration at Work
When you have a string of projects that fail to push your boundaries and fire up your passions. Here are 5 actions to reignite that spark and create new opportunities.
Great CSV Editor Tool For Your ETL Toolkit
If you work with large text input files in your BI process, a good CSV/Text editor is a must have addition in your toolkit. CSVed comes to the rescue.