Power BI - Updating culture and collation

I recently found an old deployed version of our semantic data model which need the culture updating. When I first created our semantic model, I didn’t think about setting the culture and left it as the default, unfortantely, I am based in the UK and our company is US based so our inital releases were en-UK rather than en-US, not a major issue and its easy to fix with Tabular Editor however deploying the change to existing semantic models is problematic....

October 16, 2025 · 1 min · matt40k

Care Quality Commission (CQC)

Today one of our older SSIS packages failed which loads data into our warehouse, it turns out one of the fields had been expanded as the business had started to use a different standard for one of the codes. Despite not being told about this, it causing it fail and generate extra work on an already busy Monday it was actually a really good thing. Firstly, once we identified the problem (and fixed it), our main business contact was aware of it, was able to explain why it was happening....

September 5, 2016 · 2 min · matt40k