Power BI Training for University of Colombo

Conduced a 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗜 hands-on training program to the students from 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗼. Taught them how to cleanse and perform an analysis atop raw data within a few minutes using Microsoft Power BI, which is an essential skill set required to pursue nowadays. There were 180+ students who participated in the training.

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How to Add My Power BI Report in My PowerPoint Presentation?

Had a great week after conducting two-day sessions on Data Warehousing and How to do Business Intelligence with Microsoft Power BI . During the sessions, I got an interesting question from the audience. The question was “how its possible to show the Power BI report or visuals in my Powerpoint slides, at the same time the data need to be up-to-date same as in report”. I love these sort of questions and find solutions because these are real-world problems they have. I thought to write a simple post to address that problem, and in this post, I explain how to achieve it. Pre-requisites You have already Power BI report created and published to the Power BI service. If you missed how to do it read this blog . If your source is a file like Excel or CSV the deployment is even simple. You don't want to worry about to configure the gateway and you can simply click Publish and publish your report. Steps to Follow Open the MS PowerPoint and go to Insert tab and My-Addins It will ...

Get Started with Azure Machine Learning

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How to Resume Azure SQL Serverless Database Manually?

Problem It was a horrible experience with a busy day. Suddenly the Developer Database, presumably Azure SQL Serverless Database went off. In another word, it was in Auto-pause mode. When I search through the internet, I couldn't find any reliable method of turn it back to accessible or resume mode. According to the documentation , If I login to the database then it should be turned it back, but it is not the case. I tried with both Management Studio and Azure Data Studio those options were not in my favor. Solution Unfortunately, the solution is pending. Unless you have to trigger manually by doing one of the tasks was in the list I've referenced above. I found that this feature is started to develop, according to the Microsoft Azure forum . But, that is not helpful to get sorted my issue today. Workaround Maybe if you are an Application developer you might not get this issue. Perhaps if you invoke some function which hit to the database, this problem wi...

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