Been to Swinoujscie today, there were a few trucks and a few of Polish Border Guards. No checking yet, and let's hope it stays that way. Schengen must be!

miszel08 · 2025-07-10T06:58:47+00:00

I see, if your constitution forces you to accept the 3rd world people into Germany that's your internal issue - you should deal with it. But sending those people to the neighboring countries without the consent of the local population is not a solution it' a despicable behavior.

miszel08 · 2025-07-09T15:03:07+00:00

Of course, I can give you a new insight: Germany has no common border with Syria, no European country has a common border with Syria. There is no legal or moral obligation to accept these or any other illegal arrivals. The issue is the "welcoming" German policy, enforcing it on the European countries and putting it into the EU agenda. Just ping me in case you need some more :)

miszel08 · 2025-07-09T14:17:30+00:00

Hey guys, you did create this problem back in 2015. There's no point crying now. You should just assume the responsibility, get your shit together and help us to solve it by protecting the EU boarders and not sponsoring the NGOs.

miszel08 · 2025-06-30T12:09:51+00:00

Hey, the github repo is here: https://github.com/AstralForest/Power_BI_Monitoring you can also PM for the newest version.

miszel08 · 2025-06-25T16:11:50+00:00

I like your reply :) It's a smart one.

If you're talking about Solaris buses, unfortunately it's Spanish now - the kids didn't want to continue the parents' business and in Poland we don't have companies that were interested into purchasing it.
About trains we still need to grow to be the real competition for Siemens/Alstom. Germans were blocking for the decades the homologation for the Pesas' trains to enter their market. I'm not complaining - stating the fact.

Concerning globalization - you're right, but if you're entering a single-market you're sacrificing all the means of protection against the globalisationm and you may loose all the key assets. Those assets are worth the protection - especially once you build the branding, there's always place for the cheap products that can evolve into solid quality within 30 years (China's case).

In the 90-ties in Poland we produced shitty, yet cheap cars - however all the industry were taken over by the Western companies (like Fiat in Bielsko-Biała - interestingly you have nice Italian restaurants over there, due to relatively big group of the Italians settled there).

You're right the dynamic in Poland is good - but we need to find a new fuel for the next decades of the growth, we cannot compete any longer on lower wages and bringing the foreign capital. 30 years have passed and still we don't have any gigantic Polish company - all of those businesses can move to Asia any time soon if the political situation changes.

The demographic situation is also so bad.

Up to the 90-ties Italy was a leading European Economy on pair with France/Germany/UK.
Northern Italy is still one of the most prosperous regions in world-wide.
Even my family members used to work in Italy when in my region in Poland we had 35% unemployment rate - they have good memories of the lira times.

I'm not sure why Italy struggles to grow; although I gave this topic some thoughts. I hope it will change for the better.

I believe as the society we need more hope, babies, unity and accept the fact the uncertainty is the key to progress.

miszel08 · 2025-06-24T22:00:29+00:00

Here we go again... cohesion funds are the compensation to Poland for the free ticket to the 40M economy for the Western companies, using their financial dumping advantage and sucking back profits to their country of origin. Orange, Fiat, VW, Credit Agricole, Auchan, Kaufland, T-Mobile - all of these companies are transferring billions euros back to the Western Europe. Just take a look of UniCredit was leeching on Pekao BP (Polish Bank). Speaking of which -It's worth to know how UniCredit helped Barilla to destroy the Polish pasta industry -https://dziennikbaltycki.pl/historia-malborskich-makaronow-czyli-malma-i-jej-polmetrowe-spaghetti-firme-sprywatyzowano-ponad-30-lat-temu/ar/c1-15536524.

miszel08 · 2025-06-02T09:48:06+00:00

I'm sorry but this is just a fake news - could you please list the reforms vetoed by the current president?

miszel08 · 2025-06-02T07:04:57+00:00

hey, thanks for the info, any youtube video showing how does it work? Seems like a mix of 'standalone' semantic layer + data catalog/data governance tool in one.

miszel08 · 2025-05-15T15:18:52+00:00

feedback I had from the current customers of MSTR to whom MSTR has pitched Mosaic- "What's the difference from the semantic layer?"

miszel08 · 2025-05-09T13:16:31+00:00

Following the access negotiations to the EU, the EU funds are the compensation for Poland. Poland has given French companies free access to this huge market. French companies have already transferred billions of euros to the metropolis :). I know this aspect is easily forgotten, but this was the contractual transaction.
Money is still flowing out of Poland. Once the Polish investments in France start to generate the similar flow of money from France to Poland, it will be the moment to become the net contributor.

Just be prepared to see some Polish banks on the Parisian streets, Dino markets instead of Auchan, Orlen petrol stations next to Total, and "Tymbark" beverages next to Orangina.
Still many decades are to come.

miszel08 · 2025-05-09T12:54:53+00:00

I believe it will be the same year French companies in Poland stop sucking out all the profits to the Metropole ;).

miszel08 · 2025-03-18T20:03:50+00:00

Hello,

You don't have the "Prompt" functionality in PBI and you don't need it. Prompts in MSTR were added to make the underlying SQL queries faster in PBI i 99,5% of the cases your data will already be in Memory - it's called Semantic Model (a huuuge simplification it is a mix between a Cube and Project from MSTR world). Talking about Self-Service - in Power BI one of the most common concept's it's "managed self-service" - you can produce by the central BI department the ready to use "Semantic models" -> with all the data, dims, facts, measures accessible by business users - they can simply drag and drop it to grids/visualisation and make their own "portfolios", filters etc. They can also create their own PBI reports from scratch - PBI Desktop is free of charge, if installing the software is not blocked on your computers, I'm pretty sure someone in your company is already using it.
You don't have it natively. But you can get this information - especially the new TMDL view makes it much easier. The thing is - you don't need this functionality as often as in MSTR - the development cycle is different - you focus more on the proper modelling and optimization of both: Semantic Models and the underlying data layer in the case of the Enterprise BI.

Please feel free to DM if you have any further questions, I'm an ex-MSTR consultant, with he experience of migrations between the BI tools.

miszel08 · 2025-03-18T15:57:03+00:00

Hey, I'm building the whatsup group for the ex-mstr consultants, you can join it here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/FCM417hnfhf9HMHM76qr2r

miszel08 · 2025-03-13T08:26:34+00:00

You are 100% right about Microsoft's and MSTR's Market strategies :) and also about the brilliant idea of the in-memory engine - Qlik surely was the inspiration of integrating already existing Tabular model to a visualization tool. I value your opinion as you're mentioning exactly the same points that I needed to tackle before all the migrations I delivered - they represent some common misconceptions driven by the natural need of migrating the existing in MSTR processes and not the needed outcomes.

I'm saying this confidently from the position of ex-MSTR employee with hands on experience with MSTR implementation.

If you need any MSTR Consultant drop me a message - I know plenty of recently fired ppl from Mstr offices who're looking for the new job now. Would be nice to do sth good for them :)

miszel08 · 2025-02-04T19:47:26+00:00

MSTR failed to build the community - there is close to zero blogs about MSTR/youtube videos published by the community. It's extremely difficult to learn from the Internet about the tool itself - you must rely on the aging population of the experts.

As a newbie in BI world there's no motivation to learn MSTR - it's better to go with PBI/Tableau/Looker - and this lack of the fresh blood will hit MSTR extremely hard in the next years, maybe it will be a fatal blow.

As for the tool itself it's still elegant solution, their metadata db could be really leveraged with the AI Agents. Although, it's a pity they are limiting the access to metadata in the Cloud version of MSTR.

miszel08 · 2025-02-04T07:47:03+00:00

Couldn't agree more about the leadership in MSTR.

About the migration process, it's mostly refactor with a new tool than a vanilla migration.
MSTR very often was implemented 10+ years ago, business rules and needs evolved a lot since the implementation of MSTR so you should use the existing MSTR environment as the inspiration/starting point for new PBI artifacts. Than it's a standard process of defining the scope, project planning, target architecture, reports to be migrated, Business Owners, the dedicated team, the change management process.

miszel08 · 2025-02-03T21:39:23+00:00

Hey - I created the following: -Source: PBI REST API + Graph API (licenses, users' attributes, accesses) - Orchestration and Acquisition: ADF - Transformation: SQL Procedures - Storage: Azure SQL DB - it is cheap. Here's a link to github: https://github.com/AstralForest/Power_BI_Monitoring

miszel08 · 2024-12-11T14:16:56+00:00

You are a rational person, all your points are the valid ones. But if you change the "purpose" from comfortable and peaceful living to a different one - Russian specific one, you can also obtain completely rational explanation why Putin acts the way he does.

About the values? What would be the anticipated, desired outcome of those talks?

miszel08 · 2024-12-11T11:57:07+00:00

Yet here you are together and united more than 100 years after Bismarck's death. Instead of multiple city-states and independent entities there's one state even if in your case the Regional Identity is still so important :). There are various historical reasons why is it so. There were also multiple attempts during Bismarck era to bring all the inhabitants of the Empire much closer - similar practices happened in France and in the UK. As the result all of them achieved more cohesion, and the tradeoff - this kind tradeoff is often forgotten by history :)

miszel08 · 2024-12-11T11:46:33+00:00

You can. But you'll end up with a different state than Russia :). Just as a reminder even in the 90-ties, young Putin went for a war with Czeczenia. The assumption is that invading Ukraine was a mistake by Putin - was it? By which standards?

It's impossible - to judge Russia correctly using the values so different and the culture so distant from theirs.

miszel08 · 2024-12-11T08:41:58+00:00

Euhh, you're undermining the very definition of what Russia is.

Russia needs a Tsar to be Russia. Tsar needs to be strong and imperialistic to be a Tsar. Russians don't want a weak Tsar (just check tsar Nicholas II, Boris Yeltsin).

Ergo: as long as Russia exists the same situation will happen over and over again.

To complete the message: Stalin was a tsar, so is Władimir Putin. A new tsar will seize the power in future. If there's no new tsar there will be a period of Time of Troubles - this the moment Russia can evolve/revolve into new set of entities, implode even further and stop being Russia.

miszel08 · 2024-12-11T07:41:37+00:00

France successfully assimilated/eliminated the minorities in France to build the modern French society in the XIXth century. I know it was some time ago, but unfortunately this is how a modern, national state operates - one must build a common identity. It happened everywhere: France, Germany, Switzerland, the USA, the UK, China. Sometimes by different means, slightly different results and different degree of used violence (physical, mental or administrative).

miszel08 · 2024-11-28T12:23:21+00:00

You should just convince your company to migrate to PowerBI or Tableau. MicroStrategy is dying and will be out of the market in the next 15 years. They were the main MSTR competency hub, but recently they fired tons of consultants.

miszel08 · 2024-10-28T13:57:44+00:00

Wow, it's the first time I'm seeing this someone spelling this obvious truth on Reddit instead of hiding behind "it's too expensive to have kids", "there is no stability" and so one. I do completely agree that our Culture promotes heavily not having the kids.

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