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Data Analytics
6 May 2026 5 min

Top Free Tools for Data Analysts in 2026

The free tools a data analyst can build a complete toolkit from, each checked against its own licence or pricing page: spreadsheets, SQL databases, Python, R and notebooks, data cleaning, dashboards and BI, visual workflows and version control, with the catch in each option and starter kits for different situations.

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Power BI
6 May 2026 7 min

Building a Sales Dashboard in Power BI from Scratch

A Power BI sales dashboard built from scratch on the Chinook sample database: a star schema and date table, core DAX measures for revenue, orders, customers, order value and year-over-year change, the exact values each should return, a sales rep comparison that ranks differently by total and per customer, and a layout.

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Power BI
6 May 2026 6 min

Composite Models and DirectQuery in Power BI

DirectQuery and composite models in Power BI, from Microsoft's guidance: why import is the default, the situations that justify DirectQuery, its limits from the one-million-row cap to query folding, how composite models combine import, DirectQuery and dual tables, and the security and performance traps of mixing.

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Power BI
6 May 2026 6 min

Connecting Power BI to SQL Server: A Step-by-Step Guide

Connecting Power BI to SQL Server, step by step: preparing a reporting view, the connector's settings and advanced options, authentication and certificate errors, keeping Power Query steps folding back to SQL Server, native SQL statements, checking row counts, gateway refresh and troubleshooting.

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Power BI
6 May 2026 7 min

DAX FILTER and ALL Functions Explained

The DAX FILTER and ALL functions explained with real sales numbers: how ALL on a table or a column produces three different shares of total, what ALLEXCEPT, ALLSELECTED and REMOVEFILTERS change, when FILTER is genuinely needed, such as conditions on measures, and why Microsoft recommends Boolean filters where possible.

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Azure Data Factory
6 May 2026 8 min

ADF vs Databricks: When to Use Each

Azure Data Factory moves and orchestrates data; Azure Databricks processes it with Spark and has grown its own orchestration. This guide separates their roles, examines the three areas where they overlap, runs one transformation as PySpark code to compare with a visual data flow, and gives a way to choose.

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