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Report On SAP And Salesforce Data In Fabric With Business Process Solutions

If you want to build a reporting solution on SAP (S/4HANA or ECC) or Salesforce data in Fabric and don’t want to build everything from s...

3 days ago

Power BI, Parallelism And Dependencies Between SQL Queries In DirectQuery Mode

This is going to sound strange, but one of the things I like about tuning Power BI DirectQuery semantic models is that their generally-slower ...

10 days ago

Measuring Power BI Report Page Load Times

If you’re performance tuning a Power BI report the most important thing you need to measure – and the thing your users certainly c...

17 days ago

New Books: “The Definitive Guide To DAX” 3rd Edition And “Microsoft Power BI Visual Calculations”

For some reason I haven’t had any free copies of books to review recently; maybe the market for tech books has finally collapsed with AI...

24 days ago

New Performance Optimisation for Excel PivotTables Connected To Power BI Semantic Models

Some good news: an important optimisation has rolled out for Excel PivotTables connected to Power BI semantic models! Back in 2019 I wrote abo...

1 month ago

Calculate(), DAX Fusion And Filters On 0 In Power BI

Here’s a fun DAX performance tip that I found this week. Do you have measures that use Calculate() with a filter on a numeric column? Is...

1 month ago

Measuring Time To Display For Image Visuals In Power BI With Performance Analyzer

Carrying on my series on troubleshooting Power BI performance problems with Performance Analyzer, another situation where a report may be slow...

1 month ago

Measuring Geocoding Performance In Power BI Map Visuals Using Performance Analyzer

When a user complains about their Power BI report being slow it’s normal for the developer to open up DAX Studio and start tuning the me...

1 month ago

Diagnosing Power BI DirectQuery Performance Problems Caused By SQL Queries That Return Large Resultsets

One very common cause of Power BI performance problems is having a table with a large number of rows on your report. It’s a problem I wr...

1 month ago

21st Blog Birthday: Centralised And Decentralised BI And AI

As the saying goes, history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes. While 2025 has seen the excitement around new advances in AI continue t...

2 months ago