Sometimes, in order to innovate, we have to take a step back before we take two steps forward. What that statement means in the context of this article is a mystery and for many of us such is the difference between Content Packs and Power BI Apps. Microsoft revealed Power BI Apps in this blog … Continue reading Content Packs vs Power BI App
In an earlier post, we talked about self-service process to hydrate the Data Lake Store. We also mentioned the need to use Power Shell to load data files larger than 2Gb. Here is the Power Shell script: Provide your credentials to login to Azure: $MyAzureName = "<YourAzureUsername>"; $MyAzurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString '<YourAzurePassword>' -AsPlainText -Force; $AzureRMCredential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($MyAzureName, … Continue reading Power Shell script to load data in to Data Lake Store
With recent updates to Power BI Desktop there have been a lot of enhancements to BW connector. The most significant of them is the ability to filter parameters to display only those that are required. This is achieved by clicking on Show on the top right corner of the Navigator dialog and selecting Only required parameters. … Continue reading SAP BW Connector for Power BI – Entering Parameter values
Do you have to be a developer in order to implement a solution that ties together Power BI and Azure Data Lake? I argue that you don't. However, there are a several things that you need to be familiar with before you get going. Therefore, I decided to cover several of them in this article. … Continue reading Power BI and Azure Data Lake
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