A lot of my clients ask the following question: “Hey I am connecting to SAP HANA using import mode. I need to bring multiple years of data into Power BI for YoY analysis. This means millions of rows of data. When I try to refresh this dataset, it takes hours to complete and in most
As we know SAP HANA Connector is used to connect to SAP analytical and calc views. Sometimes HANA view might get complex and deep – it might have numerous joins, aggregations and the join might be between two fact tables (e.g. a join between Inventory and Sales tables). View might end up looking something like
The full credit for this goes to the Guy in the Cube for his video where Adam talks about how to fix direct query to Azure Databricks models deployed to PowerBI.com . Unfortunately, this issue also affects import models as well. If you have an import model from Azure Databricks and you try to set
As we know SAP HANA Connector can be used in both Direct Query and Import mode. When using Direct Query mode, we do get the option to create measures in Power BI. Not all DAX functions are supported. Aggregations like SUM, MIN, MAX, COUNT, DISTINCTCOUNT are the only ones supported. We need to be careful
This post is a beginning to a series of articles about building analytical capabilities in Azure using data lake, Databricks and Power BI. On the surface, those technologies seem like they were specifically designed to complement each other as they provide a set of foundational capabilities necessary to develop scalable and cost-effective business intelligence
SAP HANA connector in Power BI is available in two modes – Multidimensional and Relational. Let’s look at the Pros and Cons of both these modes. Pros of Multidimensional Mode: Performance is good. Can connect to multiple data sources in Import mode. Parent child hierarchy is supported. SSL is supported. Cons of Multidimensional Mode: Composite
The experience while authoring reports using direct query for SAP data source is sometimes not optimal. Every click sends a query to the data source and we have to wait for the visuals to refresh…. Here is how I work around this issue. It’s not ideal but makes authoring experience a little better. From the
Power BI has a robust set of functions to write date-based calculations. One of the areas that has proven to be a challenge is related to doing math on working days instead of normal dates. \ Here is a simple scenario, let’s say I have a schedule of tasks that are supposed to be done
Here is a common problem statement: I am using SAP BW Connector available in Power BI with import mode. When I either connect or refresh data, I get a MDX error and I need to make sense of it. How did I get the underlying MDX statement and debug through the issue… Here’s how. Create
I have been using Power BI BW connector to connect to composite provider and BEx query for a while now. I have run into issues where there is a memory overflow in SAP BW or time out error quiet often. This is typically due to the volume of data that needs to be retrieved. Here
