I have written this post in my head about 93 times. At least. It’s hard to start, hard to finish. The middle part isn’t super easy either. I decided to just go for it! Start writing! I still haven’t decided what I am going to write in the middle or end… so, I’m actually pretty excited to see how that goes. You? Background There are a few things to know here. First, I have been a software developer my entire life. I got my first computer in 1982 and to this day… really enjoy writing Continue Reading
How did my “Wish List” turn out?
Back in August, I wrote up a Wish List for Excel 2015. There is a new version of Excel out, and it is still the year 2015… who could have known they would call it Excel 2016!? Anyway, let’s look at some of the winners and losers… Winners: Built in Calendar support: As long as you have at least 1 date column, you now get an option to magically create a date table! Excel will guess a reasonable date range, or let you manually set the range. They Continue Reading
DAX Studio
The blog has been a bit stagnant… even though I have quite a backlog of things to share. In my defense, I did create over 900 measures in a single Power Pivot model for a customer since we last talked. Though… that idea sounds so crazy I probably shouldn’t bring it up. There has been a ton of changes in the Power BI landscape… I’m skipping that discussion. I have two different “Part 1” posts… without completing the corresponding Part 2. I’m skipping those, Continue Reading
My RSS Feed
Here is my current list of Power BI related blogs. Let me know if I missed anything awesome :) Title URL Power Query Training http://www.powerquery.training/portfolio/feed/ Sam Vanga http://samuelvanga.com/feed/ Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog https://sqlserverbiblog.wordpress.com/feed/ PowerPivotPro http://www.powerpivotpro.com/feed/ SQLBI http://www.sqlbi.com/feed/ Chris Webb's BI Blog https://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/feed/ Kasper de Jonge PowerPivot and Power BI Continue Reading