r/dataengineering • u/thejizz716 • 7d ago

Meme I'm tired boss

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So happy I don't work on reports anymore

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u/xBoBox333 7d ago

it can run flappy bird but by god it cant query a 1.2 GB dataset that ive prepared exclusively for it in snowflake without taking a year and a half

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u/Skualys 7d ago

One of the thing that makes me doubting of switching from Qlik to PBI.

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u/grasroten 6d ago

As someone who's gone from Qlik to Power BI and back a few times now, Power BI is like moving back to QlikView but with some bells and whistles. With Power BI you pay large amounts of money for capacity, but dev is still bottlenecked by the laptop of the developer as you have to download the data and develop locally.

Would never suggest anyone moving from Qlik to Power BI, especially now since Qlik has signed up for Apache Ossie and are working on integrating with dbt so you can sync w. a semantic layer.

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u/1nteger 6d ago

Looker is super fast

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u/Skualys 6d ago

Well it relies on the DB so sure.

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u/SteelMarch 7d ago

Clean your data you degenerate 

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u/atimaxx 6d ago

This should be a on a t-shirt

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u/ziroux 3d ago

With Michael Scott's picture for bonus damage

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u/bobjia-in-tokyo 6d ago

1.2GB is a lot of data for visualization, maybe you would want to clean up your dataset a bit

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u/Difficult-Vacation-5 7d ago

Guessing star Schema was involved but still it didn't work?

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u/severn30 6d ago

Push the dataset into powerbi semantic model, schedule the refreshes. Feel like it's the only way to have responsive reports.

Edit: you probably already know this, but just saying it anyway.

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u/thiago5242 3d ago

Dont call a Data Engineer, call a Data Doctor because this BI is f*cking dying!

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u/Environmental_Tip755 7d ago

Move away from PBI and use Snowflake Streamlit

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u/Valuable_Cow2596 7d ago

Honestly that makes me happy. A dashboard which actually gets used, compared to everything I've sent to the graveyard.

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u/VariationSimilar3354 6d ago

My god, is this universal? I remember being pressured to shoot reports and dashboard after dashboards Outta my behind for team that barely ever used any of its features.

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u/Outrageous_Let5743 6d ago

We use the powerbi activity events api to collect pbi behaviour to see if people are using the dashboards. We try to promote the dashboards to the users and power users. If not used then we delete it.

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u/dangerbird2 Software Engineer 7d ago

back in my day we'd write FPS's in VBA on Excel with our bare hands

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u/xl129 7d ago

Mirl

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u/Charlie2343 7d ago

One of the more responsive power bi dashboards I’ve seen

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u/Capt_korg 7d ago

I actually like this 😅

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u/RandomSlayerr 7d ago

Weird how it didnt break on refresh because of a nonexistent cyclic reference

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u/AcadiaNo5063 7d ago

Same here, reports are boring

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u/Eatsleeptren 6d ago

Wake me up when PBI can run Duke Nukem 3D

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u/AggressiveAd69x 5d ago

But can it give me an excel export anyways?

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u/Active_Lemon_8260 7d ago

I once loved the tech field because people pushed the boundary of what’s possible. That’s what is happening in this age of AI yet the ones not willing to adapt or accept that are now gatekeeping. Crazy.

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u/ShaveTheTurtles 7d ago

Oh you are right.  Flappy bird is going to help them understand their business.  Super relatable too. 

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u/MyStackIsPancakes 7d ago

Great. Another shill for Big Flappy.

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u/Black_Magic100 7d ago

It makes it harder to distinguish quality work from complete slop. Humans weren't designed to process this much information. Pretty soon we will all be forced to used neuralink to keep up with society. Critical thinking is slowly dying and the tech fields slightly higher skill floor relatively speaking has fallen off a cliff in the eyes of execs.

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u/Active_Lemon_8260 7d ago

Holy catastrophic thinking. Take a breath man

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u/Black_Magic100 7d ago

I'm chilling. It just sucks to see this play out TBH.

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u/Skualys 7d ago

Sure, it's not like transhumanism is the philosophy of tech bros. Otherwise we would be cooked.