Power BI on System Management

“An important update is pending” – Edge WebView2

Tue, 04 Apr 2023 19:35:00 +0300

Did you ever start Power BI Desktop and this error showed-up out of nowhere?! Clicking “Install now” seems to be doing something but in the end it fails saying Microsoft Edge Webview2 Runtime is already installed? Restarting the machine does not help, don’t bother trying 🙂 Uninstalling and installing Power BI Desktop again – same…

Power BI Data Profiling – distinct vs unique

Tue, 16 Oct 2018 08:48:09 +0300

“Another month, another Power BI Desktop update” as Guy(s) in a Cube use to say. Power BI Desktop October 2018 update brings in quite a few updates, with one thing being my favorite as I always do/check it manually when working with new data: Data Profiling. For more info and how to enable it, visit…

What and when: DateAdd vs ParallelPeriod vs SamePeriodLastYear

Wed, 30 May 2018 08:28:36 +0300

Reza Rad over at http://radacad.com/dateadd-vs-parallelperiod-vs-sameperiodlastyear-dax-time-intelligence-question explains the differences and provides easy usage scenarios for DateAdd, ParallelPeriod and SamePeriodLastYear DAX functions. Read his blog post to see how he reached to below conclusion: DateAdd and SamePeriodLastYear both work based on the DYNAMIC period in the filter context. ParallelPeriod is working STATICALLY based on the interval selected in the…

Power BI: The key didn’t match any rows in the table

Fri, 18 May 2018 06:54:54 +0300

Error: Refreshing Power BI report generates “The key didn’t match any rows in the table” error. Cause: Click “Edit Queries” button. If you do not see the error message, click “Refresh Preview” button. Once you have the error message, click “Go To Error“. Error message will remain, but you should have “Edit Settings” button now,…

How to get and view WordPress Statistics in Power BI

Fri, 11 May 2018 06:28:41 +0300

Soheil Bakhshi from http://biinsight.com has a super good article on how to get your stats from a WordPress site/blog and analyze them in Power BI. For lazy guys out there, he already built a Power BI template file that you can use straight away. The only thing you’ll need is WordPress API key but don’t…

Expressions that yield variant data-type cannot be used to define calculated columns.

Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:57:47 +0300

Error: “Expressions that yield variant data-type cannot be used to define calculated columns.“ Cause: IF based Calculated Columns in Power BI or Power Pivot with 2 different data types is not allowed. Solution: Format one data type as needed using FORMAT() function. [code language=”sql”] Age = IF ( TableName[Birthday] < TODAY(), FORMAT ( Year (…