Power BI Semantic Model Refresh Warnings
Since March 2026, Power BI semantic models have started showing warnings in their Refresh History in the Service. This has scared a few people...
6 days ago
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Power BI And Support For Third Party Semantic Models
I’ve been working with Microsoft BI tools for 28 years now and for all that time Microsoft has been consistent in its belief that semantic mod...
13 days ago
Role-Playing Dimensions In Fabric Direct Lake Semantic Models Revisited
Back in September 2024 I wrote a blog post on how to create multiple copies of the same dimension in a Direct Lake semantic model without crea...
20 days ago
Generating Excel Reports With Fabric Dataflows Gen2
So many cool Fabric features get announced at Fabcon that it’s easy to miss some of them. The fact that you can now not only generate Ex...
27 days ago
Query Folding And Staging In Fabric Dataflows Gen2
A few years ago I wrote this post on the subject of staging in Fabric Dataflows Gen2. In it I explained what staging is, how you can enable it...
1 month ago
When Can Partitioned Compute Help Improve Fabric Dataflow Performance?
Partitioned Compute is a new feature in Fabric Dataflows that allows you to run certain operations inside a Dataflow query in parallel and the...
1 month ago
A Closer Look At Preview-Only Steps In Fabric Dataflows
I have been spending a lot of time recently investigating the new performance-related features that have rolled out in Fabric Dataflows over t...
1 month ago
Report On SAP And Salesforce Data In Fabric With Business Process Solutions
If you want to build a reporting solution on SAP (S/4HANA or ECC) or Salesforce data in Fabric and don’t want to build everything from s...
1 month ago
Power BI, Parallelism And Dependencies Between SQL Queries In DirectQuery Mode
This is going to sound strange, but one of the things I like about tuning Power BI DirectQuery semantic models is that their generally-slower ...
2 months ago
Measuring Power BI Report Page Load Times
If you’re performance tuning a Power BI report the most important thing you need to measure – and the thing your users certainly c...
2 months ago
