A guide to making your Power BI custom connector for Power Apps and Power Automate — Power BI REST APIs provide a flexible alternative to govern and automate some of the tasks a user or administrator performs. One of the best low-code automation options is Power Apps and Power Automate. …

Resources and tips to help you nail down the DP-203 exam to earn the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certificate — Azure Data Engineers integrate, transform, and consolidate data from diverse structured and unstructured data systems into suitable structures for building analytics solutions. A certificate is a portable, industry-recognized credential that travels with you throughout your career. Whether you are just starting or a seasoned professional, certification can help you become…

Developing a bare minimum REST API for Azure PostgreSQL Database using Azure Functions with Node.js in Azure Portal — Azure Functions is a serverless computing service running on Azure’s cloud-hosted execution environment. Azure Functions lets us run auto-scaled, event-triggered code on an abstracted underlying hosting environment. An everyday use case scenario for Azure Functions is to perform work in response to an event and when that work can be…

A step-by-step guide to turning COVID-19 data into stunning Power BI visuals using Microsoft Azure offerings. — Cloud, Big Data, and Business Intelligence are the three buzz words of the decade. Everyone is talking about them. Everyone wants to do it. But no one tells you how to do it. How do you use the cloud to process your big data and build intelligence around it to…

A short guide to selectively refresh tables in Power BI datasets with XMLA endpoints — Refreshing the entire dataset in Power BI is not always desirable or sometimes even unnecessary. Unfortunately, Power BI Service doesn’t provide an option to refresh tables selectively. Either you refresh all the tables or none. …

A complete guide to mastering visual headers and icons in Power BI — Part 1 — Visual headers in Power BI offer a rich set of actions to the report end-users. A visual header in Power BI is the set of icons that pops up when you hover over a visual such as charts, maps, heat maps, etc. …

A complete guide to mastering visual headers and icons in Power BI — Part 2 — Visual headers extend the features offered by Power BI and interactivity between visuals and the users. A visual header is the set of icons that pop up when you hover over a visual. This article discusses the visual header icons in detail, explaining their purpose, applicability, and considerations. …

Resources and tips to help you prepare for the AZ-900 exam to earn the "Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals" certificate — Azure Fundamentals certification is the baseline to prove knowledge of cloud concepts and expand foundational knowledge of Azure services, Azure workloads, security and privacy in Azure, as well as Azure pricing and support. This article will list out the resources and tips that can help you on your journey to…

Resources and tips to help you prepare for the AI-900 exam to earn the "Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals" certificate — Azure AI Fundamentals certification is the baseline to check and expand foundational knowledge of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) concepts and related Microsoft Azure services. Fundamentals are also a great starting point for other Azure certifications like Azure Data Scientist Associate or Azure AI Engineer Associate.