New Book: “Extreme DAX” 2nd Edition
“Extreme DAX” by Michiel Rozema, Madzy Stikkelorum and Henk Vlootman Continuing my series of not-reviews of the latest Power BI-re...
4 days ago
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Improve Performance Of Staging In Fabric Dataflows Gen2 By Disabling V-Order
Quite a few new Dataflows Gen2 features were released recently without much fanfare, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t important. ...
11 days ago
Fabric Dataflows Gen2 And Concurrent Evaluation, Part 3: Is More Parallelism Always Good?
To finish off my series of posts on concurrent evaluation in Fabric Dataflows Gen2 (see part 1 and part 2) I decided to do some more realistic...
18 days ago
Fabric Dataflows Gen2 And Concurrent Evaluation, Part 2: Partitioned Compute
In the first part of this series I showed how the Concurrency setting in a Fabric Dataflows Gen2 can affect refresh performance when there are...
25 days ago
Fabric Dataflows Gen2 And Concurrent Evaluation, Part 1
Did you know that if your Fabric Dataflows Gen2 contains several queries then you can control how many of them are evaluated in parallel when ...
1 month ago
Understanding The “You’ve Exceeded The Capacity Limit For Dataset Refreshes” Error in Power BI
If you have a lot of Power BI semantic models that are scheduled to refresh at the same time in the Service then you may find that some of the...
1 month ago
Power BI Semantic Model Memory Errors, Part 5: The “Maximum Allowable Memory Allocation” Error
This is a very late addition to the series of posts I wrote back in 2024 and which started here on Power BI memory errors. It’s about a ...
1 month ago
Connecting Power BI Semantic Models To Data Sources Automatically With Binding Hints
Did you know that you can configure your Power BI semantic model so that it automatically binds to a data source connection when you publish? ...
1 month ago
Generating Sample Data In Fabric Dataflows With FabricAI.Prompt()
Back in December the FabricAI.Prompt() M function was released in Fabric Dataflows Gen2. Most of the people writing about it at that time, as ...
1 month ago
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...
2 months ago
