This blog builds on my previous blog, Keeping Big Data Big with Aggregations. The below video contains an end to end demonstration of setting up in-memory Vertipaq aggregations over data stored in an Azure SQL Data Warehouse. The data used within this demo, is telemetry collected from from from the how-old.net website.
As Power BI grows to become a superset of Analysis Services functionality, a lot of that functionality will evolve as it becomes available. Incremental data refresh is a great example of how Power BI is modernizing/simplifying complex BI implementations. Incremental data refresh is the process of incrementally loading new or changed data to a BI … Continue reading BI Evolution: Incremental Data Refresh
I have built several solutions over the years to enable business users to get at the data they need to do the analysis that is important to them. I would build cubes so that they could slice, dice and mold the data into the shape they need. They would use tools like Excel, Reporting Services … Continue reading Keeping Big Data Big with Aggregations
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