21st Blog Birthday: Centralised And Decentralised BI And AI
As the saying goes, history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes. While 2025 has seen the excitement around new advances in AI continue t...
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Diagnosing Power BI DirectQuery Connection Limit Problems With Performance Analyzer
To kick off my series on diagnosing Power BI performance problems with Performance Analyzer in the browser (which I introduced last week with ...
6 days ago
Visualising Power BI Performance Analyzer Data With A Vibe-Coded Custom Visual
Performance Analyzer is now available in the browser, not just in Power BI Desktop! Actually everyone got excited about this back in September...
13 days ago
Power BI Copilot And Report Filters And Slicers
In my last post I talked about how to push Power BI Copilot to get answers from the semantic model rather than the report you’re looking...
20 days ago
Stopping Power BI Copilot From Answering Questions From Report Visuals
When you ask Power BI Copilot a data question, the first thing it will do is try to answer that question using information from report visuals...
27 days ago
A Look At The Impact Of Calendar Based Time Intelligence On Power BI DirectQuery Performance
Calendar-based time intelligence (see here for the announcement and here for Marco and Alberto’s more in-depth article) is at least the ...
1 month ago
Power BI, Build Permissions And Security
If there is sensitive data in your Power BI semantic model that you don’t want some users to see then you need to use row-level security...
1 month ago
Linking Queries Run From DAX Studio To Workspace Monitoring And The Capacity Metrics App
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about how you can now link event data from Workspace Monitoring to data in the Fabric Capacity Metrics App...
1 month ago
Calling DAX UDFs From Power BI Copilot
Can you call a DAX UDF from Power BI Copilot? I was asked this question by Jake Duddy during the livestream on Power BI Copilot I did with Rei...
1 month ago
Monitoring The DAX Queries Generated When The Power BI Copilot Index Is Built
In my last post I talked about the text index that Power BI Copilot builds to help it answer data questions. You might be wondering if you can...
2 months ago
