Tableau led the self-service visual reporting revolution and now part of the Salesforce suite, it is bound to continue to have a loyal following and user base. The purpose of this article is not to compare Tableau to Power BI nor to expound on the strengths or perceived weaknesses of either product, but to share my experience and learnings about using Tableau with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI semantic models. I will demonstrate how to use Tableau with a Direct Lake semantic model, a large im...| Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog
It is no secret that the AI revolution has started. Most every modern business application has an agent, a copilot or assistant asking to help write a document or take meeting notes. Nearly every b…| Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog
Both Azure DevOps and GitHub are supported Git hosts for Power BI and Fabric workspace integration. I will demonstrate using…| Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog
For the business intelligence professional, DevOps can be a confusing topic because it intersects with many disciplines and philosophies. I’m hopeful that a bit of reflection on my own experi…| Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog
The term “architecture” is more commonly used in the realm of data engineering and data warehouse project work, but the concept applies to BI and analytic reporting projects of all size…| Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog
I wanted to share the results of a few experiments I recent conducted with one of my favorite sets of sample data. This will take at least two blog posts to cover, but I will summarize them here: C…| Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog
I just read that the Miss Universe contestant from Panama was evicted from the Miss Universe pageant. I don’t know…| Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog
I work with hundreds of consulting clients who go through the same cycles, having the same experiences, facing the same challenges, many making the same mistakes, and many learning some of the same…| Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog
Advice and lessons learned from working with consulting clients for nearly one year since Fabric was released. How to approach architecting solutions, choosing from among Fabric assets and tools, a…| Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog
I created this report to summarize the release status for all Fabric features that are documented in the Microsoft Fabric Roadmap. The information on this report is collected and updated frequently from the Fabric Roadmap hosted by Microsoft, and displays status information in a convenient, single-page Power BI report. Each feature area on the report has links to the detail documentation on the official roadmap site. For convenience, I've shortened the report path to TinyURL.com/FabricRoadmap...| Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog
Fabric is here but what does that mean if you are using Power BI? What do you need to know and what, if anything will you need to change if you are a Power BI report designer, developer or BI solution architect? What parts of Fabric should you use now and how do you plan for the near-term future? As I write this in March of 2024, I'm at the Microsoft MVP Summit at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington this week learning about what the product teams will be working on over the next year ...| Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog
In my view, projects and teams of different sizes have different needs. I described DevOps maturity as a pyramid, where most projects don't require a sophisticated DevOps implementation, and the most complex solutions do. The DevOps maturity is a progression, but only for projects of a certain scale. One of the following options might simply be the best fit for a particular project. Unless you are throwing together a simple Power BI report that you don't plan to maintain and add features to, ...| Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog
Please come to the Atlanta SQL Saturday BI Edition in February, and join me for a full-day preconference event: Designing and Developing Enterprise-scale Solutions with Power BI| Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog
Are you in the California Bay area? Do you want to learn to do Power BI and Fabric the right…| Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog