Episode 109 – Interview With Reid Havens
This is episode 109 recorded on July 18th, 2019 where John & Jason review some community news, and John interviews Reid Havens of Havens consulting about the Power BI community, consulting in the Power BI world, and template apps.
Show Notes
Matt Allington’s post on scaling capacity up and down
Phil Seamark’s post on speeding things up if you use “contains” in DAX
Phil Seamark’s post on speeding up DirectQuery
Guy In A Cube – No code REST APIs
User Voice Picks
John
It would be great if Power BI could read files in AVRO format from Azure Blob Storage
Jason
Allow ‘Search’ within slicer filtering for non-text attributes
Text attributes can be ‘searched’ within report slicers. However, integers cannot. For example, if someone wants to quickly find and slice by a Customer Id, it is very cumbersome right now – lots of scrolling. A simple search by Customer Id (as an integer) within the slicer would make it much faster and a better user experience
