Yay, Source Control for Power BI Reports!

Reading Time: 5 minutes Source Control for Power BI Background I follow an amazing person in the BI community, Eugene Meidinger. Eugene has a weekly newsletter called “The Weekly BI Five” that includes 5 links to blogs, software, communities and anything in-between that he came across recently that he though would interest us subscribers (if you’re interested in checking…

To Dataflow or not to Dataflow, that is the Question…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Overview If you are familiar working with Power BI you will definitely be familiar with datasets. Datasets are the base data layer of your Power BI report and store your data from a variety of data connections, which you can then use to build out your report visualizations. When to use them? So obviously using…

Power BI: How to Refresh Excel Datasets in a Published Report

Reading Time: 5 minutes Why not just use the built-in Excel connector? Excel spreadsheets are still quite widely used in industry and are a popular method of recording and tracking various forms of data. If you are familiar with Power BI Desktop you would be aware that there is a out-of-the-box Excel connector that allows you to easily connect…