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Mirroring D365 Business Central Data To Fabric

Something that has got a little attention in the D365 world but not much in the Fabric world is the new functionality for mirring data from D3...

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Microsoft 365 Copilot And Power BI: The Easiest Way To Chat With Your Data

If you’re a regular reader of my blog you’re likely to be a Power BI developer, consultant or admin. You’re probably also un...

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Simple Report Bursting With Fabric Dataflows Gen2

When the new Send Email action was announced for Fabric Dataflows Gen2 – which allows you to send an email from a dataflow when it refre...

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Monitoring The Impact Of Full-Text Indexing On Semantic Model Refresh In Power BI

The September release of Power BI saw the introduction of a powerful new feature: full text indexing, which makes searching and filtering on t...

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ApproximateDistinctCount In Power BI Is Sometimes Slower Than DistinctCount

As a follow-on from last week’s post about the new ApproximateDistinctCount function in DAX, I want to share something I found out from ...

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The Problem With Approximate Distinct Counts In Power BI – And How To Solve It

As you’ve probably seen in the blog post for the September 2026 release of Power BI, Import mode and Direct Lake mode semantic models no...

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Improvements To Power Query Integration In Power BI Report Builder

There are some nice improvements to Power Query integration in the latest version of Power BI Report Builder that, while they are documented, ...

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Find Unused Objects In Power BI Semantic Models With Semantic Link Labs

A few weeks ago I wrote about how Semantic Link Labs now has tools with interactive UIs and showed how you could use this to view lineage and ...

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Find What Changed And When In Your Power BI Semantic Model

Here’s a situation I’ve found myself in many times. You’re called to help someone whose Power BI report is suddenly very slo...

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Choosing A Power BI Storage Mode For Reporting On Data From Azure Databricks

In case you haven’t already seen the blog post on the Power BI blog or the discussion on LinkedIn, we at Microsoft published a new white...

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