Create a POST request with Power BI
In my last post, I showed how you can connect to a REST API with Power BI by using a Service Principal. After that, I got quite a lot of comments and questions if it would be possible to also create a POST request with Power BI, not only a GET one. First, I thought…
Connect with Power BI to the Power BI REST API with a Service Principal
As you probably know the Power BI REST API is a very handy interface to extract information in an automatic way. I showed already in different posts how to use e.g. Python and Power Automate to achieve various things (see https://pbi-guy.com/tag/power-bi-rest-api/). But did you know you can also connect with Power BI to the REST…
Create a custom partition in Power BI and trigger a refresh with Python
Working with large datasets I almost always get the question if an incremental refresh can be configured within Power BI and yes, this is possible as described here. Especially if you have a date or datetime column it makes sense to set up an incremental refresh to reduce your dataset refresh time. Once set up,…