Why Tabular Editor is a must for Power BI developers
(You can also find the article on my website together with other articles and more interesting things)
In this article I will first give a short introduction of what Tabular Editor is and why I think that it is a very important tool in Power BI. After that I will go through five use cases where Tabular editor will help you achieve things quicker and more effective than if you were only using Power BI.
(You can also find this story at my web page eliasnordlinder.com, where I also post many other articles about Business Intelligence)
What is Tabular Editor?
Tabular Editor was created by the Danish Principal Architect and Microsoft Data MVP Daniel Otykier, working for Kapacity. He has worked with the MS BI stack for 12+ years and also being a C#/.Net developer for 15+ years.
Originally (2016) replacement for Visual Studio to edit display folders
In this video Daniel explains that the development of Tabular Editor began in 2016 while working with a client in SQL Server Analysis Server. There was a really big model, + 1000 Measures, and Daniel did not want to work with every…
