Using #Visio and #PowerBI with #GraphDatabase in #SQLServer

February 9, 2018 — davidjpp

I went to a very interesting inaugural meeting of the South East UK Power BI Group last week. Whilst the presentation by Dr. Subramani Paramasivam was impressive for its ambition, it was the presentation by Andrew Fryer of Microsoft that particularly intrigued me. He introduced us to the world of Graph Databases, such as Neo4J and CosmosDB, but also demonstrated SQL Server 2017’s new Graph table types, called Node and Edge.  He used the latter because solution because he could use example in Power BI using the Force-Directed visual. Well, this SQL Server feature was new to me, and so I was inspired to see if I could use my favourite tool, Visio, to input data into a graph database, and to selectively display parts.

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in PowerBI, SQL Server, Visio, Visio 2016, Visio Online. Tags: , , . 5 Comments »
JackBinnall

O365 and SharePoint

Simplify Tasks

Want to learn the simple way?

Paul Turley's SQL Server BI Blog

sharing my experiences with the Microsoft data platform, SQL Server BI, Data Modeling, SSAS Design, Power Pivot, Power BI, SSRS Advanced Design, Power BI, Dashboards & Visualization since 2009

John Goldsmith's visLog

be smart, be clear, be visual ...

Mo's blog

Personal views on Dynamics 365 for Operations and Technical Architecture.

SQL Swampland

Chris Webb's BI Blog

Microsoft Power BI, Analysis Services, MDX, DAX, M, Power Pivot and Power Query

davecra.wordpress.com/

Azure Solutions for Office 365, and more...

Rob Fahrni

johnvisiomvp

Life with Visio and other Microsoft Toys!

Nilsandrey's Weblog

Just another WordPress.com weblog

Things that Should be Easy

Every so often (too often in the IT industry) I encounter things that should have been very easy to do but turned out to be far too complicated. My favorite topics include SharePoint, .Net development, and software architecture, especially distributed systems.

Visio Guy

Smart graphics for visual people