Weekly Roundup for May 24, 2021

In case you missed it, be sure to check out the Nashville Power BI user group meetup for May 2021 where Alex Powers helps improve your paginated reporting game in an hour.

 

Adam Saxton shows you all the tools you need to take your Power BI game to the next level:

Tools

  1. Power BI Desktop

  2. Performance Analyzer

  3. DAX Studio

  4. Vertipaq Analyzer

  5. Tabular Editor

  6. Best Practices Analyzer (just updated)

  7. ALM Toolkit

  8. Guidance documentation

Books

  1. The Complete Reference of Star Schema

  2. DAX Patterns

  3. The Definitive Guide to DAX

 

Chris Webb does a lot of work on improving query performance and refresh times within the broader Power BI ecosystem. He gave a talk at the recent SQLBits conference on the subject. Definitely worth a watch.

 

Microsoft has been making small updates to the Small Multiples visual every month since it came out. I was wanting someone to go over all the features comprehensively. Belinda Allen has done so in about four minutes.

 

Another great session from Chris Webb on some of the advanced features of Power BI, some of which many people don’t know even exist.

 

Adam Saxton helps people optimize their Power BI data models all the time. Here, he shows you his thought processes as he goes through the troubleshooting.