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Power BI Copilot Summaries honor AI Instructions to provide non-English language responses

In working with Power BI Copilot one of the feedback requests I hear from my customers is being able to support non-English languages. While p...

Dan English's BI Blog 1 year ago 16

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Standalone Power BI Copilot experience is now available!

The new standalone Power BI Copilot experience has been released and now available to use. In order to start using this new experience the new...

Dan English's BI Blog 1 year ago 26

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Power BI – Paste List of Values into Slicer?!?

So it has been a bit since I have posted here. The balance of work and family life⚖️ So what is it that got me so excited this week that I jus...

Dan English's BI Blog 1 year ago 29

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Upcoming presentations and exploring the road a bit!

Been a bit since last post. Busy things going on at home and our son wrapped up his final year in high school and we moved him into the univer...

Dan English's BI Blog 1 year ago 23

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PASSMN March 2024 Presentation Follow Up

This week we had our first in-person PASSM (MN SQL Server) user group meeting. I was holding off on doing my presentation until we met in-pers...

Dan English's BI Blog 2 years ago 26

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M365 Twin Cities Fall 2023 Community Days Follow Up

This past Saturday I was able to attend, present, and get connected with the community at the M365 Twin Cities Fall 2023 Community Days event....

Dan English's BI Blog 2 years ago 32

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Power BI using Service Principal with Synapse SQL Pool with Shareable Cloud Connection

This is a bit overdue and a follow up to a few other posts I have regarding using Service Principal authentication with Power BI reports Power...

Dan English's BI Blog 2 years ago 22

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Minnesota SQLSaturday 2023 #1054 Follow Up

This past weekend I had the pleasure to present at Minnesota SQLSaturday 2023 and it finally returned to in-person event after four years! It ...

Dan English's BI Blog 2 years ago 11

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Minnesota (MN) SQLSaturday 2023 #1054 and Pre-Con Events! Sep 29-30

Hello #SQLFamily, we are very excited that this year we will be back in-person for the Minnesota SQLSaturday event that will be held once agai...

Dan English's BI Blog 2 years ago 16

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Drillthrough support in Paginated Reports now available!

Last month there was a new update that has been made that provides support for drillthrough report actions in the Power BI service (Microsoft ...

Dan English's BI Blog 3 years ago 21