Provide data lake access with Azure Synapse Analytics

Using a lake database with Azure Synapse Analytics and struggling to figure out permissions needed for your data readers? Patrick and Adam show you what’s missing!

Azure Synapse Access Control
https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics/security/synapse-workspace-access-control-overview

How to set up access control for your Azure Synapse workspace
https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics/security/how-to-set-up-access-control

Control storage account access for serverless SQL pool in Azure Synapse Analytics
https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics/sql/develop-storage-files-storage-access-control?tabs=user-identity

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Excel Sum The Comma Delimited Numbers From One Cell – 2372b

Om asks: I have 123,413,413,1352,244­ in a single cell.
There are many numbers with commas in between in each cell.
How to Sum all the numbers using a formula?
I don’t want to use Text to Column.
By the way, it is Excel 2010.

I use Brad Yundt’s three-line VBA function to split the numbers.
Then Excel formulas to sum them.
Also, an easier formula if you have Microsoft 365.

Table of Contents
(0:00) Sum all comma-delimited numbers in cell using an Excel formula
(0:19) Easy solution with TEXTSPLIT
(0:32) Switch to VBA for Brad Yundt Splitter code
(0:55) Using SPLITTER custom function in Excel
(1:25) Wrap up with Wally & Nancy

Power Query Insert Blank Row After Each Group – 2372

Back in episode 2359, I needed to add a blank row after every group of names. Although I was already in Power Query, I went out to Excel to add the blank rows.

Several people commented with code to add a blank row after each group in Power Query. Thanks to @BillSzysz1 @radosawpoprawskiyourfriend769 @GeertDelmulle Rico S and Suat Ozgur for guiding me on how to add one line of M code to my query.

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🔴 Power BI tips from the Pros – LIVE (Feb 11, 2023) (Member Chat 2nd Half)

Join us live as we answer your questions about Power BI!

💥 30 minutes: Open Q&A (Public)
💥 Then… Members Only Chat (Public can watch & Super Chat for Questions)

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👉 Super chats take priority
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Excel Count Super Bowl Squares By Name – 2371

A question from @chwang06 : Asks how to count Super Bowl Squares by the name in the squares.
In this video, I will show how to get a list of players with =UNIQUE(SORT(TOCOL(C3:L12))) and then count how many times each person played using =COUNTIFS(C3:L12,C17#)

Table of Contents
(0:00) Question: Count Excel Super Bowl Squares by Name
(0:35) Make sure your Excel has TOCOL function or use Excel Online
(0:55) Excel.New in Excel Online
(1:05) Unwinding Excel range to 1 column vector
(1:33) SORT and UNIQUE functions
(2:00) COUNTIFS with Dynamic Range as second argument
(2:30) Many names for # symbol
(2:51) Mention video 2385
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Guy in a Cube answers the web’s most searched questions on Power BI

Let’s see what the most asked questions are on the web about Power BI! Adam looks at google for the questions and then responds. You heard that right! He went to Google.

Power BI forecasting
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/transform-model/desktop-analytics-pane#apply-forecasting

Describing the forecasting models in Power View
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/describing-the-forecasting-models-in-power-view/

Power BI on a Mac?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUpqtWEOG40

Understand star schema and the importance for Power BI
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/guidance/star-schema

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Time to look at the new INDEX function in DAX and Power BI

The latest DAX functions in Power BI can be very “power”ful! Patrick starts by looking at the INDEX function to solve a customer problem!

Blog announcement:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/blog/power-bi-december-2022-feature-summary/#post-21693-_Toc121395731

INDEX function (DAX)
https://learn.microsoft.com/dax/index-function-dax

WINDOW function (DAX)
https://learn.microsoft.com/dax/window-function-dax

Chris Webb’s Blog
https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2023/01/02/why-dax-window-functions-are-important-for-performance-in-power-bi-directquery-mode/

Jeffrey Wang’s Blogs on Window Function

https://pbidax.wordpress.com/2022/12/15/introducing-dax-window-functions-part-1/

https://pbidax.wordpress.com/2022/12/23/introducing-dax-window-functions-part-2/

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