The “bring your own license” feature in the Power BI service is far from new. However it’s something that I have found myself using increasingly over the last few months. Being able to do work for a customer, creating and managing content, but without them having to pay for you Read more…
This blog is inspired by a poll I recently ran on Twitter about whether people hide the filter pane or not. It’s another one of those topics where I don’t feel there is a definitive right or wrong answer – yep, this is me fence sitting again. But as always, Read more…
Date Tables… yep that again. I’ve been here before when I blogged about whether you should use M or DAX to generate your date table in Power BI. But the real answer, once again referencing Roche’s Maxim is to do it further upstream in a Data Warehouse. Some source systems Read more…
Well, I’m home having spent a week at SQLBits 2022 at the eXcel Conference Centre in London. And it was frickin ace! If you were a fellow ‘Bits attendee I’m sure you’ll agree it’s a superbly run event. But if you’ve never been then let me tell you why you Read more…
Urgh! What a horrifically click baity title for a blog… Still, you’re here now anyway, so you may as well read on. I wanted to capture this as a blog as an aide memoire to myself as much as anything else, so I don’t fall for this RLS (or ‘Row Read more…
Is it even possible to fall in love with some software? According to the 2013 Spike Jonze file ‘Her’, yes it is. Ok, maybe calling it love is taking it too far, but it’s fair to say that I do think Power BI is ace. Why? Well the answer is Read more…
Welcome to Greyskull Analytics! So what is Greyskull I hear you ask? Well, if you’re hoping to come across a bright new start up in the analytics world well… sorry to disappoint, but Greyskull Analytics is me, Johnny. It’s this website, it’s this blog and it’s my YouTube channel. And Read more…