Ed Freeman

Software Engineer @endjin. Curator of @PowerBIWeekly

[Ed Freeman @edfreeman_]

@kevchant @kevarnold @PowerBIWeekly @MSFabricconf Argh sorry about that, Kevin. My mistake - I pressed the wrong thing (but I promise I had you in mind when adding your article!)

[Ed Freeman @edfreeman_]

@MicahDail Just a caution that if you have many rows and deep hierarchies (along with many measures), then perf on the matrix suffers. So worth testing.

[Ed Freeman @edfreeman_]

@MicahDail It might be worth looking into the Inforiver matrix (if you have the appetite). We had a very similar scenario and found that Inforiver had very nice (and flexible) ragged hierarchy handling, and made the measures simpler.

(Btw I/my company has no affiliation with Inforiver!)

[SQLBits @SQLBits]

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[Azure Weekly @AzureWeekly]

SQLBits 2024 Workshop - DataOps: How to Deliver Data Faster and Better with #Microsoft Cloud from @edfreeman_ https://t.co/OmY9QXCvC9 #Azure

[SQLBits @SQLBits]

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[Ed Freeman @edfreeman_]

Super excited to be speaking at #SQLBits2024 about #DataOps with @barry_j_a_smart. If you'd like to level up the quality of your Data Platform, then this training day's for you!

[SQLBits @SQLBits]

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[Ed Freeman @edfreeman_]

@MrAndyCutler Have they ever logged into the Power BI Service?

[Howard van Rooijen @HowardvRooijen]

📢 #MicrosoftFabric End-To-End demo Part 4: Creating a OneLake Shortcut to ADLS Gen2 from @edfreeman_
https://t.co/C9KkQ2abkY

[Howard van Rooijen @HowardvRooijen]

📢 EP3 of @edfreeman_ #MicrosoftFabric end-to-end demo series. Ingesting 5GB into a Bronze Lakehouse using Data Factory.
https://t.co/itF5L0klkU

[Ed Freeman @edfreeman_]

It's pretty exciting finally being able to talk about this. We have plenty more content on the way! #MicrosoftFabric

[Howard van Rooijen @HowardvRooijen]

1/n If you're interested in the #MicrosoftFabric announcements from #MSBuild - we have lots of content for you! We were fortunate to be part of the private preview, and we wanted to share what we learned.
A top level post and a long 🧵

https://t.co/qOTWkLtOuj

[Ed Freeman @edfreeman_]

@mim_djo @DeltaLakeOSS The cost of streaming data back to the Synapse Studio web client can be non-trivial. Anyway, I'm not sure it'll change your original conclusion regarding single vs multi-node architectures😀

[Ed Freeman @edfreeman_]

@mim_djo @DeltaLakeOSS Depending on the size of the resultset, be careful using Synapse Studio timings as a direct indicator of performance. See whether using a local client (SSMS/Azure Data Studio) makes a difference. I've had some queries be an order of magnitude faster for operations like these.

[Ed Freeman @edfreeman_]

@alexdupler @ehansalytics @DOtykier From a Power BI Desktop perspective, doesn't the "Pause visuals" functionality brought in a few months ago give you that middle ground, to some extent? https://t.co/0JxC6YtshI

[Ed Freeman @edfreeman_]

@waynealytics See: https://t.co/DUFMJcRier

[Alper Sarikaya | @alper.datav.is @yelperalp]

In the Friday release dump: a JSON schema for report themes for Power BI Desktop. Whaaaaat?

https://t.co/LbaEE9PhsM

[Ed Freeman @edfreeman_]

@mthierba Am I missing something, or has *that* sentence now been removed? 🤔

[Howard van Rooijen @HowardvRooijen]

1st issue of @AzureWeekly for 2023 almost done. It's a whopper. 220+ articles. The emergent theme from the community is "cutting the cost of #azure spend" 🔎💰

[Ed Freeman @edfreeman_]

Auto-statistics for CSV datasets in SQL Serverless - nice! Great work from the #AzureSynapse team.
#SynapseInfluencers

[Ed Freeman @edfreeman_]

@GiveBloodNHS Hi there, I'm due to give blood next Monday. Will the donation centre still be open (given that it's a bank holiday for the Queen's state funeral)? Thanks!