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Power BI
6 May 2026 5 min

Power BI Gateway Explained: Connecting On-Prem Data

The Power BI data gateway explained: how it connects cloud reports to data on your own network using only outbound connections, when you need one, the standard, personal and virtual network gateways, where to install it and what machine it needs, clusters for high availability, its limits, and keeping it updated.

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Azure Data Factory
6 May 2026 7 min

Azure Synapse vs Azure Data Factory: A Comparison

Azure Data Factory moves and orchestrates data. Azure Synapse Analytics stores and analyses it, and happens to include a copy of Data Factory's pipeline engine. This guide compares what each can and cannot do, where the overlap is, how each is sized and billed, and the questions that decide which you need.

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Power BI
6 May 2026 5 min

Power BI Tooltips: Adding Context to Visuals

How to use the three kinds of Power BI tooltip to add context without clutter: tooltip fields and aggregations, sentence-format templates, drill actions in the footer, report page tooltips built and assigned step by step, how line charts and cross-highlighting affect them, accessibility limits, and design tips.

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Power BI
6 May 2026 6 min

Power BI vs Excel: When to Use Each Tool

A task-by-task guide to choosing between Power BI and Excel at work: the signs a workbook has outgrown Excel, what Excel still does better, the worksheet row limit tested on a real two-sheet retail dataset, and the ways the two tools work together, from Power Query to Analyze in Excel and connected tables.

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Career Guidance
6 May 2026 8 min

How to Switch Careers After 30: A Practical Guide

People do move into tech after 30, though they are a small minority, and once there they are as satisfied as everyone else. Survey data from nearly 29,000 working developers and data professionals shows how common late starts are, which roles late starters hold, and what a realistic switch looks like.

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Power BI
6 May 2026 7 min

Time Intelligence in DAX: YTD, MTD and Comparisons

DAX time intelligence for Power BI: the date table it depends on, year-to-date and month-to-date measures, fiscal year ends, prior-year comparisons with SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR and DATEADD, rolling windows with DATESINPERIOD, and the partial-month trap that turned a 62.7% increase into an 8.6% fall, shown with real numbers.

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