4 years ago I was a speaker for an event called "Power BI for municipalities". The first speaker showed some of the reports they had been making at their organization. The audience was very involved and enthusiastic. They simply loved it. The main feeling going through everyone's mind was "I want to start with Power
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Dimensional Modeling
It is quite common to update your skills in a product, Power BI for example. It is not so common to re-validate concepts or theory very often. For example "Joins are performance heavy", or "Data warehouses need surrogate keys". Usually these things don't change very often. Still it is important to update your view on
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I've been looking into DWA for a few months now, and might give it a try sooner or later. Here's some thoughts about it:
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Datamarts, cubes, tabular models...they all present a dimensional model to the end user that is intuitive. At least, that should be the case. So no abbrevations in the dimensional model. Business users tend to prefer to see the data in the same way they speak about it. So a product is a product, not a
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