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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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Referencing Images And Other Files In Power BI Reports Using OneLake URLs

Several years ago I wrote a very popular blog post about how to store images for your reports inside your Power BI semantic model. It solved t...

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Tools With Interactive UIs In Fabric Notebooks With Semantic Link Labs

There’s so much going on in the Fabric community that it can be hard to keep up with it all. Semantic Link Labs is a great example: in t...

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Displaying The Output Of Detail Rows Expressions In Power BI Reports Using The Paginated Report Visual

In last week’s post I mentioned that while Power BI reports (unlike Excel PivotTables) do not support the Detail Rows Expression feature...

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