Power User Days Belgium - September 2019 Edition

This weekend I attended the Power User Days in Belgium, organised by the Flemish Power BI User group together with the PowerApps and Flow User Group Belgium. It took place at the Bmatix office in Kontich. I not only attended, but also did 2 sessions on Power BI!

TL;DR - Slides

For those of you that attended my session or the workshop, here are the links to my slides:

• Workshop: The Power BI Service - Workspaces & Apps
• Tips & Tricks of a Power BI (Premium) Implementation at a Financial Institution

Always good to have stickers!

#powerbidays Gotta have them stickers! 😁 pic.twitter.com/cgDzs6XMJA

— Nicky van Vroenhoven (@NickyvV) September 14, 2019

My experience

I had one session planned, my Tips and Tricks of a Power BI (Premium) Implementation at a Financial Institute, that I'm also presenting together with my colleague Jeroen Schalken (B | @JeroenSchalken) at SQL Saturday Prague next weekend. But Jan Mulkens (B | @JanMulkens) (founder of the Flemish Power BI User Group, a.o.) contacted me last Wednesday with the idea of doing a second session in the form of a 1-hour hands-on workshop. Jan quickly setup a demo Power BI tenant for me and I came up with the content of the workshop in the next few days.

I really liked doing the workshop, although it was a last minute change of plans. I like the interactivity you get with and between the attendees. The login and setup stuff took a bit longer then expected so I quickly ran out of time. However, almost everyone decided to stay another 15 minutes to complete the exercise I started, even though lunch was already being served :-)

Nice interactions in between sessions at @powerbidays #powerbi pic.twitter.com/ajT8aAwaKe

— Nicky van Vroenhoven (@NickyvV) September 14, 2019

Altogether I really enjoyed the day, now on to SQL Saturday Prague where I will be (co-) presenting my Tips & Tricks session at the last time slot of the day!

Let me know if you're also going to Prague, otherwise see you at Data Saturday Holland or dataMinds Connect!

SSAS BISM Tabular Workshop

On april 16 and 17 I attended the BISM Tabular workshop from Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari (from SQLBI.com with my colleague Bas Kroes. We were guests at Microsoft BV @ Schiphol, the facilities were excellent, although the temperature in the room was a bit too high these days.

BISM Tabular Workshop

It were 2 long days, also because on monday evening we attended the PASS Community event, co-hosted by ADA ICT, where Marco and Alberto talked about: Tabular or Multidimensional?

PASS Community event

I've been working with PowerPivot for Excel for almost a year now, but haven't done very much on SSAS, and nothing with Tabular (in regards to customers) yet, so I learned a lot in the workshop.

Specially the filter and row context in DAX was very good explained by them, it's still a hard topic, especially with 1-to-many and many-to-many relationships.
I can recommend the workshop to everyone who wants to know more on Tabular and SSAS 2012!