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Do you want to add a search bar to your WordPress navigation menu? Search form can be really helpful for your users to find what they’re looking for on your site. In this article, we will show you how to add a search bar to your WordPress menu. http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-add-a-search-bar-to-wordpress-menu-step-by-step/

I write a lot about the Why behind the What. The Why > What > How framework is how I approach pretty much everything I work on, from my writing, to my tutorials, to the products I design. https://bulletjournal.com/blogs/bulletjournalist/edition-2

Recently I had the pleasure of presenting for the team at Planilheiros (whose Portugese-language YouTube channel is almost as popular as Guy In A Cube) at their Power BI Summit. My session was on “Advanced Analytics Features in Power BI” and you can watch it here: https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2020/11/29/session-recording-advanced-analytics-features-in-power-bi/

Nothing excites me more than finding an out of the ordinary API. Many times we just want to focus on the frontend but also need interesting, dynamic data to display. https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/7-free-apis-that-nobody-is-talking-about-cf974e15917

Let’s all be clear about this – COVID-19 absolutely and categorically sucks. Been the ever-growing concern we have for our family and friends, as well as the stability of many people’s livelihoods coming out of this, there are plenty of reasons to be negative about the current situation. https://nascompares.com/2020/04/22/7-fun-things-to-do-with-your-nas-whilst-in-self-isolation/

The Power BI team at Microsoft publishes a “release plan,” which is essentially the public product roadmap. Anyone can use it to understand what new capabilities and improvements are planned, and when they’re expected to be released[1]. https://ssbipolar.com/2020/10/09/the-best-power-bi-roadmap/

When you think of modelling, what do you think of? A lot of intricate joins, look ups, or maybe just frustrations? Have you experienced this before? You have a measure, but it doesn’t give you the correct answer. You wonder why. You are not exactly sure why, so you tweak the measure. https://towardsdatascience.com/power-bi-modelling-bcd4431f49f9

Back in August I highlighted the new dataflows PowerShell script repo on GitHub. These scripts provide an accelerated starting point to working with the dataflows REST APIs and to automate common dataflows tasks. https://ssbipolar.com/2020/10/01/automatically-refresh-dataset-when-dataflow-refresh-completes/

Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly SQL DW) )is the next evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. It is a combination of enterprise data warehousing and Big Data Analytics. A Synapse SQL Pool is the enterprise data warehousing feature that is generally available in Azure Synapse Analytics. https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/loading-data-in-azure-synapse-using-copy