Last week our CTO Daniel Otykier yet again was involved in a thread on Twitter, where Micah Dail suggested creating a script to annotate Role members with their human readable information instead of the AAD Guids that doesn’t make sense to humans. I’ve got a script idea that would be great but I’m struggling to […]
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There is a lot of hype these days about Large Language Models. While they are excellent for some tasks, they still can’t replace a good BI developer. However – they can be used for a lot of helpful things, so heavily inspired by the great articles written by Darren Gosbell:Automatically generating measure descriptions… & Generating
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Dynamic measure selectors For certain kinds of reports, it sometimes makes sense to be able to select which measures should be displayed by checking off members on a dimension, rather than including individual measures from the field list. There are many blogs and articles online that describe this pattern in more details. You can find
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Exporting Translations Tabular Editor lets you export translations into the same .json file format used by Visual Studio and SSAS Tabular Translator. This is useful if you want to delegate the task of translating your model to someone without access to your tabular model metadata. Let’s say you’ve added a new culture (called “translation” within Tabular
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Converting partitions from M to Legacy When building Analysis Services tabular models on top of a Data Warehouse or Data Mart on a relational database, I recommend using the Legacy (Provider) data sources instead of the Power Query data sources available since SQL Server 2017. Unfortunately, Power Query data sources have become the default in
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If you’re refreshing different parts of your Tabular Model at different times of the day, you may need to know what the current refresh state is, across all objects of the model. For example, running a “dataOnly” refresh on a table, does not automatically refresh calculated columns, hierarchies or relationships. To know which objects are
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