What Happens When Power BI Direct Lake Semantic Models Hit Guardrails?
Direct Lake mode in Power BI allows you to build semantic models on very large volumes of data, but because it is still an in-memory database ...
6 days ago
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Performance Testing Power BI Direct Lake Models Revisited: Ensuring Worst-Case Performance
Two years ago I wrote a detailed post on how to do performance testing for Direct Lake semantic models. In that post I talked about how import...
12 days ago
Useful Community Tools And Resources For Power BI And Fabric
There are a lot of really cool free, community-developed tools and resources out there for Power BI and Fabric – so many that it’s...
19 days ago
Power BI Copilot, AI Instructions And DAX Query Templates
At the end of my last post I showed how, if you put the definition of a measure in the AI Instructions of your Power BI semantic model, Copilo...
27 days ago
Power BI Copilot, AI Instructions And DAX Measure Definitions
Continuing my (already very long) series on what information you should be adding to the AI Instructions of your semantic model and why, in th...
1 month ago
Why Do Power BI Copilot AI Instructions Seem To Work Better in Desktop Than In The Service?
I’m spending a lot of time with organisations testing Power BI Copilot at the moment, and something I hear a lot is that Copilot works w...
1 month ago
Power BI Copilot, AI Instructions And Visualisation Guidelines
If there are specific ways you want your data to be visualised by Power BI Copilot then you have two options. You can use Verified Answers to ...
1 month ago
Power BI Copilot, AI Instructions And Semantic Model Relationships
Power BI Copilot knows about the relationship between measures and tables, which means that it’s very good at knowing which measures can...
1 month ago
Power BI Copilot, AI Instructions And Dealing With Ambiguity
One of the most common questions I hear about Power BI Copilot is how you can stop it from guessing what a user means when they ask an ambiguo...
2 months ago
Power BI Copilot, AI Instructions And Preventing The Use Of Implicit Measures
In yet another entry in my series on what you should be doing in Power BI Copilot AI Instructions, in this post I want to address the most dif...
2 months ago
