How to Use the Enlighten World Flag Slicer Custom Visual in Power BI
In this guide, you will discover how to utilize the Enlighten World Flag Slicer—a powerful custom visual for Power BI. This slicer automatically converts text fields containing country names or abbreviations into corresponding country flags, allowing you to filter report elements visually and intuitively. Exploring Module 55: Enlighten World Flag Slicer for Power BI In… Read More
Power BI and Enterprise Data Security: Compliance and Encryption Overview
As Power BI continues to gain traction in enterprise data analytics and visualization, ensuring robust data security is paramount. Organizations leveraging cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, AWS, Salesforce, and Office 365 must understand the compliance standards and security measures these services provide, particularly in the context of Power BI. Over the past several years, I’ve… Read More
Understanding Power BI Licensing: A Comprehensive Guide for Your Organization
Are you just starting with Power BI in your company and feeling overwhelmed by the licensing options? Power BI licensing can seem straightforward for small businesses but tends to get complex in larger organizations. This guide will help you navigate the key concepts and steps to manage Power BI licenses effectively. Comprehensive Guide to Power… Read More
How to Document Flow Logic in Power Automate: Best Practices and Quick Tips
Welcome to another edition of Power Platform Quick Tips! In this post, we’re diving into one of the most overlooked yet valuable practices in Power Automate—documenting your flow logic. Whether you’re building simple workflows or complex automation, adding clear documentation helps you and your team maintain, understand, and scale your solutions more effectively. The Importance… Read More
Mastering the Power Apps Canvas Code Editor: Complete Guide for Developers
Microsoft Power Apps has introduced a highly anticipated feature that’s changing the game for app creators—the Canvas Code Editor. This new addition allows developers to view, copy, and reuse the code behind app objects, significantly boosting efficiency, consistency, and scalability across Canvas apps. In this guide, we’ll walk you through how the Power Apps Code… Read More
Do You Really Need a Star Schema in Your Data Warehouse?
The star schema has long been considered the gold standard for organizing data warehouse structures, but modern data professionals are increasingly questioning whether this decades-old pattern remains the optimal choice for contemporary analytics environments. As organizations accumulate massive volumes of data from diverse sources and deploy increasingly sophisticated analytical tools, the rigid structure of star… Read More
Power BI Data Source Optimization: Best Practices for Reliable Reporting
Power BI is a powerful analytics platform that can connect to a wide variety of data sources—from Excel and CSV files to SharePoint lists, SQL databases, and modern data warehouses. However, managing these sources efficiently is key to achieving consistency and accuracy in your reporting. The Hidden Pitfalls of Using Too Many Power BI Data… Read More
Efficiently Share Self-Hosted Integration Runtimes Across Multiple Azure Data Factories
Managing data integrations in the cloud just got easier. Microsoft Azure now offers the ability to share self-hosted integration runtimes (IRs) across different Azure Data Factory instances—a major enhancement that simplifies hybrid data movement. A self-hosted integration runtime (IR) is a critical component in bridging the gap between on-premises data environments and cloud services like… Read More
How to Build a Dynamic Date Table in Power BI
Creating a dynamic and auto-expanding date table in Power BI is essential for time-based analysis and creating accurate dashboards. In this guide, we’ll explore a simple but powerful method to generate a date table dynamically from your existing dataset using Power BI’s Power Query Editor. The Importance of a Dynamic Date Table in Power BI… Read More
Transforming Denormalized Data with SQL Unpivot
In this tutorial, Austin Libal, a Data Engineer Trainer walks you through the process of unpivoting data using SQL—a crucial skill for transforming wide, denormalized datasets into a cleaner, more analytical structure. In the evolving landscape of data analytics, professionals are frequently confronted with datasets that are structured in wide, denormalized formats. This is especially… Read More