Current Status Of Snowflake Query Tags In Power BI
Since the November 2024 Power BI release blog post announced that queries sent to Snowflake by Power BI include a query tag I’ve had a l...
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Fabric Data Agents: Unlocking The Full Power Of DAX For Data Analysis
Now that Fabric Data Agents (what used to be called AI Skills) can use Power BI semantic models as a data source I’ve been spending some...
8 days ago
Using Excel Copilot To Import Data With Power Query
Although it was announced in this blog post on the Microsoft 365 Insider blog recently, you might have missed the news that Excel Copilot can ...
15 days ago
Speed Up Dataflow Publishing/ Validation Times In Power BI And Fabric
If you’re working with slow data sources in Power BI/Fabric dataflows then you’re probably aware that validation (for Gen1 dataflo...
22 days ago
Using Excel Solver With Power Pivot
After years of meaning to learn how to use Excel Solver, this week I’ve finally made a start: I want to use it to work out the optimal w...
29 days ago
Refreshing Hidden Tables In Power BI Semantic Models With Fabric Data Pipelines
Following on from my recent post about refreshing semantic models with Fabric Data Pipelines and the semantic model refresh activity, a few pe...
1 month ago
Another Way To Visualise Import Mode Semantic Model Partition Refresh Parallelism
I’m a big fan of Phil Seamark’s “visualise your refresh” pbix file, which allows you to analyse the different operatio...
1 month ago
Monthly Power BI Semantic Model Refreshes With Fabric Data Pipelines
I’m sure you already know how to configure scheduled refresh for your semantic models in Power BI. While the options you have for contro...
1 month ago
Reading Delta Metadata In Power Query
There’s a new M function rolling out now that allows you to read metadata from Delta tables (at the time of writing it’s available...
1 month ago
Improve Power Query Performance On CSV Files Containing Date Columns
A few weeks ago I replied to a question on reddit where someone was experiencing extremely slow performance when importing data from a CSV fil...
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