Last week I kicked off the new BI Polar YouTube channel with a video and blog post comparing and contrasting Power BI dataflows and datasets. In the days that followed, I continued to hear questions that led me to believe I hadn’t done a great job answering one vital question:
When would I use dataflows, and when would I use shared datasets?
Here’s the short answer:
And here’s the long answer: Lego Bricks and the Spectrum of Data Enrichment and Reuse.
The video focuses on – and demonstrates – sharing and reuse with both dataflows and datasets. It’s short and to the point[1] and focuses on this one question.
The blog post takes a more conceptual view, using Lego bricks as a metaphor for dataflows and datasets and the types of reuse they enable.
If you’ve watched the videos and read the posts and you still have questions, please let me know.
[1] As short and to the point as anything you’re likely to get from me, anyway. Brevity has never been my forte.
Great video. What does the german shepherd / “hard no” tshirt mean?
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It’s from the Canadian comedy TV show Letterkenny. Beyond that it’s hard to explain…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterkenny_(TV_series)
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Excellent video – saved me a lot of reading 🙂
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Thank you!
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