While the paper was commissioned by Microsoft it was written by an independent expert, Liping Huang, who has extensive expertise with Power BI and Databricks and who has worked for both Microsoft and ...

I then created a Shape Map visual, dragged the Country Name and Electorate measures into it, went to the Map Settings properties and set the Type to “URL” and pasted in the URL of the GeoJSON file ...

There are a lot of articles and blog posts out there on how to handle OAuth2 authentication when connecting to REST APIs from Power Query in Power BI. However there is also a lot of confusion and ...

One of the most common errors you’ll see when working with Power Query in Power BI or Excel is this: It can occur with almost any data source and in a wide variety of different circumstances, and for ...

When I read about the new conditional formatting by values feature in the August 2018 release of Power BI Desktop, my first thought was to write a blog post on how DAX can be used to generate the hex ...

A long time ago someone – probably from the Power Query dev team – told me that adding primary keys to M tables could improve the performance of certain transformations in Power BI and Excel Power ...

You probably know that semantic models in Power BI can use a fixed amount of memory. This is true of all types of semantic model – Import, Direct Lake and DirectQuery – but it’s not something you ...

If you have a lot of Power BI semantic models that are scheduled to refresh at the same time in the Service then you may find that some of them fail with the following error: You’ve exceeded the ...

A few months ago I wrote about a rare error – the “Maximum allowable memory allocation” error – that may occur when the physical machine, or node, that a ...

One very common cause of Power BI performance problems is having a table with a large number of rows on your report. It’s a problem I wrote about here, and while I used an Import mode for my example ...