(Livestream Replay) The Nuances of Creating Quality Written & Video Content - with SQLBI

Join Marco, Alberto, and Reid as they reveal their secrets behind delivering quality and digestible content. Alberto and Marco have delivered a plethora of books, articles, courses, and videos for over a decade. While Reid cut his teeth many years back on much of the content released by SQLBI, he has now released over 150 videos now on YouTube, written numerous blogs, and authored multiple Power BI courses. Between the three of them they’ll share valuable insights on their process for creating educational material across various mediums and what it means to infuse passion into content.

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Alberto and Marco have written several books about Power BI, Analysis Service, and Power Pivot. They teach DAX and Tabular modeling, publish articles and videos on sqlbi.com, and regularly speak at international conferences and community events.

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Posted on February 4, 2022 by Reid Havens and filed under Livestreams, Topics & Discussion and tagged Best Practices Media Coverage.

(Livestream Replay) Deploying Reports with PBI-Tools - with Mathias Thierbach

PBI-Tools is an open-source project bringing source control capabilities to Power BI developers. The days of black-box .pbix files are over, and Power BI projects can now be run with established engineering practices such as: change control, branches, and CI/CD pipelines. In November, PBI-Tools added a new deployment feature for Power BI reports, based on declarative deployment manifests (also held in source control). You'll understand the basics of PBI-Tools, and see the new 'deploy' action in practice, both on the desktop as well as in Azure DevOps.

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In 2015, after having spent over ten years as a Software Developer and Architect with Microsoft technologies, Mathias Thierbach moved into the Microsoft BI space. He soon landed on Power BI, but also realized quickly that the development and engineering tools and practices were nothing like the ones well established in software development. This is how pbi-tools started as a project, filling this gap in tooling. Today, leading a growing data management team at YouGov, he experiences the benefits of those efforts every day. Having open sourced the project in fall of 2021, Mathias spends a lot of his free time bringing those practices to the wider Power BI community now.

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Posted on January 28, 2022 by Reid Havens and filed under Livestreams, Topics & Discussion, External Tools and tagged External Tools Data Modeling.

[DAX] Anti-Patterns Episode Two: SELECTEDVALUE() (with Daniil Maslyuk)

A lot of videos and articles teach you how to write [DAX]. In this video Daniil Maslyuk and I will show you you how avoid bad [DAX] patterns! This episode will focus on the SELECTEDVALUE function.

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Daniil Maslyuk, MVP, is an independent consultant and the author of the official Microsoft Power BI exam reference books.

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Posted on January 25, 2022 by Reid Havens and filed under Power BI, DAX, Topics & Discussion and tagged Tips & Tricks Beginner DAX.