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  • DAX Studio 2.11 Released

    DAX Studio 2.11 Released

    If you haven’t heard about DAX Studio, well now you have. DAX studio is an essential tool for Power BI developers. It enables you to explore and tune your tabular model with ease. This month we are pleased to have the creator of this tool Darren Gosbell present to us the latest updates for DAX Studio.

    DAX Studio has just released it’s latest version 2.11.1.  With this release comes a number of great improvements. 

    New features include

    • Query Builder
    • Query Benchmark
    • More Quick access buttons
    • Exporting button for  trace outputs
    • Tooltips for tabs
    • And many more….

    Watch the Webinar

    Recent Releases

    DAX Studio 2.11.0 Released
    DAX Studio 2.11.1 Release

    Follow Darren
    Website: http://geekswithblogs.net/darrengosbell/Default.aspx
    MVP: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/35889?fullName=Darren%20Gosbell
    Twitter Handle: @darrengosbell
    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrengosbell

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  • Get to know ALM Toolkit

    Get to know ALM Toolkit

    The ALM Toolkit is an excellent tool for aiding users with Tabular Model management. Christian Wade has been generous enough to provide us with a detailed tutorial on the ALM ToolKit.

    In this webinar Christian Wade takes us on a guided tour of the key features and use cases for ALM ToolKit.

    ALM Toolkit Feature Set

    • Database Compare
    • Code Merging
    • Making Deployment Easy
    • Source-control Integration
    • Reuse of common Definitions

    YouTube Video of Webinar

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  • Tabular Editor Rocks!

    Tabular Editor Rocks!

    Tabular Editor is an incredible Tool that enables users to manipulate a Tabular model at lighting speeds.  Daniel Otykier is the creator of the Tabular Editor program. We are producing a video series to enable users of Power BI and data modelers for Analysis Services to learn more about this program.

    Trust me this will be the best 4 hours of learning you will do this year. Learn about Tabular Editor and how it can save you HOURS of time. It will be worth it.

    In this Series

    This series will be broken down in to four topics.

    • Introduction
    • Using Scripting to remove repetitive tasks
    • Best Practice Analyzer to ensure your model is top notch
    • Incorporating DevOps with Tabular Models

    Introduction

    Daniel walks us through the basics of the program. We get a little bit of history on how the tool was developed and why you need to know about it.

    Using Scripting

    This by far is where the tool shines. Scripting allows users to automate common tasks for, creating measures, adding descriptions, building common calculations, hiding measure and more.

    Best Practice Analyzer

    Model running slow? This feature of Tabular Editor will allow you to quickly review your entire model and find areas for improvement.

    DevOps

    Once you have a data model how do you control versions? Or, can multiple people work on the same data model? Yes, to both of these questions. This video discusses manage data models with a DevOps pipeline.

    All Videos

    What all the videos in the series from Start to finish.

    More about Daniel

    Slides for Tutorials

    Click this link to download all the power point slides for this tutorial series.

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  • Stacked Bar Chart

    Stacked Bar Chart

    For this week we are building a stacked bar chart on https://Charts.PowerBI.Tips. While you can build this type of chart within Power BI Desktop this video is more of an example showing how you can build a similar custom visual chart. There are two areas that i’d like to point out.

    1. When working with a chart you can add a Legend to a shape object (2:40)
    2. Adding a grand total requires an additional Glyph (3:14)

    While these two tips are pretty simple it really does help you when building more complex custom visuals.

    Watch the Tutorial

    Download this Custom Visual

    If you liked this visual and want to download it, head over to this repository to download.

    Learn More About Custom Visuals

    We have been working hard to help you learn how to make custom visuals. Check out our full YouTube Playlist to learn more about using Charts.PowerBI.Tips.

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  • Power BI Embedded Dashboard

    Power BI Embedded Dashboard

    For a while now I have been longing to spend more time learning all the ins and out of Power BI embedded.  From the line of work that I do, I can see a number of different development applications where an embedded solution would be perfect.  Microsoft has been spending more time developing and feature enhancing the embedded experience.  The Guy in a Cube (Adam Saxton) has another great video walking through how to embed a dashboard.  Great video, and a really good walk through.  Thanks Adam.

    Power BI Embedded Dashboards:

    If you haven’t already make sure you go check out Adam’s site and YouTube Blog for more great information.

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