October, 2021 | Summa Lai

What is the Raspberry Pi? How Is It Different from a PC?

Posted on October 15, 2021October 15, 2021 by Summa Lai

A regular PC is made up out of individual components, the basis is a motherboard. Everything in the PC is connected to it. The CPU, RAM, video card. All these devices hook up to standardized connectors and together they form the PC. A Raspberry Pi is a single-board computer. It has a motherboard (it is a motherboard) Read More

How to Fix “Visual has Exceeded Available Resources” in Power BI

Posted on October 14, 2021October 14, 2021 by Summa Lai

I’ve been using PowerBI for the better part of a year now. For the last couple of weeks, I had annoying failures to refresh for 6 of our 14 tile visualizations. It’s also inconsistent. Some days certain tiles are refreshed and others don’t. I was able to get around this issue by identifying which table caused Read More

How to Establish a Live Connection to a Power BI Datasets from Power BI Desktop

Posted on October 13, 2021October 13, 2021 by Summa Lai

You can establish a live connection to a shared dataset in the Power BI service, and create many different reports from the same dataset. You can create your perfect data model in Power BI Desktop and publish it to the Power BI service. Then you and others can create multiple different reports in separate .pbix files from that Read More

Power BI: How to Improve Refresh Speed (Odata and More)

Posted on October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 by Summa Lai

When working with Power BI, sometimes the refresh speed is excruciatingly slow. This can seriously hamper the development time of your data analytics team. So what’s the best way to improve the refresh? Here are some tips I’ve discovered that will help to speed it up. Make the Power Query steps more efficient OData Filtering Read More

Let Our Lives be Full of Both Thanks and Giving

Posted on October 11, 2021October 11, 2021 by Summa Lai

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! Oct. 11, 2021 @ Canada