SQL Server news from connect start to resonate
Hi all, A month ago at the Connect event in New York Microsoft did some anouncements on SQL Server vNext and Azure Data Services. It’s good to see the traction it’s getting! I work with a lot…
Annual radio countdown Top 2000 in Power BI
Full screen Most of this post will be in Dutch. Every year a list of 2000 songs is voted on by people from the Netherlands. This list is then broadcast by Radio 2 in the last days…
Passing filters to Power BI reports using the URL / query string
It was only recently that I discovered this – you can pass filters to Power BI reports by deep linking to it and adding a filter in the URL (also called query string). I am not even…
Power BI Custom Visual Development Tip: VisualPlugin.ts: Property ‘Visual’ does not exist error
So here you are, creating your very own Power BI custom visual. You have read the documentation and ran the tutorial (https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-visuals/blob/master/Readme.md and https://github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-visuals-sampleBarChart). You feel proud because you are done creating your awesome looking 3d-piechart-barchart-mashup visual.…
First look: Esri ArcGIS Maps in Power BI
Esri is a leader in the GIS industry and ArcGIS is a very popular product to build great maps. Now, you can use ArcGIS maps in Power BI (in preview). See the official information here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-arcgis-maps-for-power-bi-by-esri-preview/. This…
Adding sequence numbers using R in Azure ML
When going through data preparation sometimes sequence numbers need to be added. If you are like me, you probably spent some time looking for a component in Azure ML to do this. I never found it. Turns…
Power BI learning resources – follow up 3
Another great resource for learning about Power BI is the course on EDX: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI. Granted, has been around for a while, but I forgot blogging about it; maybe it is a…
Power BI Refresh scenarios against data storage solutions explained
A recurring theme with customers and partners is Power BI data refresh. More specifically, there is some confusion on what refresh scenario requires a Pro version and what can be done with the Free version of Power BI.…
Roles in a data driven organization
All this talk all the time about Big Data and Advanced Analytics is all well and good, in fact it is something I do most of my time. The technology is there and has great potential. The…
Azure Machine Learning pricing explained
Many customers asked me questions on Azure Machine Learning (Microsoft’s fully managed machine learning and data mining solution) and more specifically on it’s pricing. In this post I will try to explain how the pricing works and…
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