Getting started with Power BI sounds easy enough, but there are a number of moving pieces that make it a bit more difficult to get started. The goal of this post is to walk through all of the pieces so you can figure out which ones are important to you and which you can hold off on. Power BI Desktop Power BI Desktop is …

Looking for a way to learn more about Power BI? Check out my new Power BI Resources page! We all have a wide variety of source we use to figure out how to solve various problems in Power BI, so I wanted to start my own place to collect some of these resources. Hopefully this is as useful for you as it is for me! I also …

Last week (May 25-27, 2021) was Microsoft Build. Microsoft tends to use these types of events as an opportunity to either announce or at minimum celebrate new features that are on the way, and 2021 was no different. They followed up with this blog post and I thought I’d offer up my thoughts on these areas. AI …

This is probably the 6th time I’ve tried to start a blog. Before I get too far in, and before we see how successful this iteration is, let’s discuss what’s going on here. I’ve worked in IT for over a decade, and have worked in a wide variety of technologies, largely in the Microsoft data stack. …