EDIT 2016-07-12: Microsoft has changed their API and policies and functionality, so this artcile is obsolete now. I will shut down the sample site. For details, please see: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/what-s-new-and-what-s-next-for-power-bi-embedded-july-2016/ Creating dashboards is more witchcraft than art and more art than science. Think about how many times you have banged your head to produce a useful chartRead More
Edit: The base URL has changed from https://api.powerbi.com/beta/myorg to https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg. OAuth is clearly becoming the de-facto standard for authenticating API calls around the web. In the business intelligence arena, while we can discuss its pros and cons, we undoubtedly must get acquainted with it because sooner or later we’ll be tasked with importing data fromRead More
Second issue of the series about OAuth (you can see the previous here). I’ll try to explain how to use the Google OAuth 2.0 mechanism to authorize a server side scripts without the need of the user’s credentials, in order to automate the INSERT or SELECT (or WHATEVER) processes. I am testing this with BigQueryRead More
I love web services, I love API, I can’t say the same for OAuth! It’s frustrating at times, when you’re not using any of the existing libraries to get the entire flow running. If you have a headless server, with a terminal console and limited programming languages at hand, one of the best options youRead More
