Power BI Pro Tip: show 0 instead of (Blank)
May 12, 2020Default behavior of Power BI is to show (Blank) even when summing a numerical column that happens to be all empty. Want to show 0 instead? COALESCE helps.
Azure SQL firewall settings for Power BI refresh
I do not claim that what is included in this post is the perfect way of doing things. However, some things related to Azure SQL firewall settings for Power BI data refresh caught me by surprise recently…
Fixing ‘subscription is not registered with NRP’ error in Azure
Today I hit the following error while trying to write a PowerShell script to automate some Azure Networking related tasks (more on that soon!): 'Subscription [subscriptionID] is not registered with NRP'. In this short post I will…
Working with aggregations in Power BI Desktop
Aggregations bring me back to the good old SSAS days.You can imagine that I was curious but skeptical when I tried aggregations in Power BI Desktop.
Updated: Annual radio countdown Top 2000 in Power BI
A bit later this year, but even after my move to the US I decided to keep up the tradition of updating my Power BI analysis of the Top 2000 analysis for this year. Read all about…
Stepping back into the ring.
I am happy to share with you all that I am stepping back into the ring. After a ‘brief’ period (“It has been 6 months, how can you call that brief?”) I am back. And better than…
Passing command line settings to SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages using dtexec on Linux
This is my first blog post since I moved to Redmond. A lot of time has passed, sorry for that! I kept busy filling out forms, forms and some more forms. After that came more forms. I…
Updated: Annual radio countdown Top 2000 in Power BI
This is starting to become a tradition, sort of. My Power BI analysis of the Top 2000 has been updated to include 2018’s edition! Read all about it in the original post from 2016. Full screen Enjoy…
Farewell Tour
DUTCH DATA DUDE FAREWELL TOUR A CHANGE IS GONNA COME Na bijna 10 jaar waag ik de grote stap. Ik verhuis naar Amerika en ga voor Microsoft in Seattle aan de slag. Daarmee komt er een einde…
Power BI Connector for CBS Open Data / Statline updated
I have updated the instructions and the code for the Custom Connector for CBS Open Data / Statline. Please see the original post: Power BI Connector for CBS Open Data / Statline
Machine learning is like washing clothes
Automating a data wrangling pipeline using chained Azure Functions. This post and its code was co-authored with Codeprincess. Machine Learning is all about data… and algorithms. But first and most importantly it’s about data. And it’s not just…
Data Nerdness
