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
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Visual Studio 2017 and the SQL Server Data Tool (SSDT), a tool that comes with Visual Studio, finally integrates the now familiar Query Editor (Power Query) capability to work with the Analysis Services Tabular Model. Query Editor is a data ingestion and transformation tool used by Excel Power Pivot as well as Power BI. Now,
October update of Power BI Desktop was released a couple of days ago. One of the key feature update in this release is that the SAP BW Connector now supports additional member properties (attributes). Earlier version of SAP Connector exposed only text value of the BW object. To get additional member properties, we had to have
This information has been around the blogosphere for a while but I keep forgetting how to find it; I decided to write about it on my blog so that I can easily find it next time I need it. The existing functionality of the Power BI Connector for SAP BW only exposes text values of
It is very unfortunate that at the time when there is such a flood of good and exciting news coming out from the Power BI dev team my workload made it almost impossible to post on this site. However, a recent update from the Power BI support site made me literally drop everything and write
I am sure it is only a matter of days (hours ?) before Power Query is updated with the Google Analytics connector as well, but I find it very interesting that new Power Query features are now first released in Power BI Designer. I had speculated earlier that Microsoft would/should focus on Designer as the
Click here to download the data file for this tutorial. We are not always lucky to have our data neatly laid out in rows and columns. Sometimes, our data come in as a formatted report and we need to find a way to massage the data before it can be loaded into a data model.
This tutorial is based on one of the earlier tutorials – How to Create a Star Schema Model. I strongly recommend that you go through it first to become comfortable with using Power Query to create facts and dimensions for your Star schema before we start working on ID generation. The data set that we’ll
Understandably, I was very excited to find Analysis Services as a supported Power Query data source as of November update of the product (those familiar with the Business Objects connector will find the interface to be very familiar). I am running SQL Server 2014 on my machine and have the corresponding version of the ADOMD.NET
In its recent post announcing November release of Power Query, Microsoft is also asking us to take a Power Query survey. I have lobbied for a long time to have SAP BW added to the supported PQ data sources. The reasoning is simple, almost half large companies in US run SAP and a good percentage
