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Modern Power BI architecture choices for reporting on Azure Databricks: A performance benchmark for Power BI storage modes

Many enterprise Power BI semantic models use Azure Databricks as a data source. When building these models, developers and architects face an ...

Power BI Blog—Updates and News | Microsoft Power BI 4 days ago 4

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Power BI sample reports, refreshed with modern visual defaults

Microsoft has refreshed its Power BI sample reports with modern visual defaults, stronger semantic models, mobile-optimized layouts, and newer...

Power BI Blog—Updates and News | Microsoft Power BI 5 days ago 7

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Direct Lake Calculated Columns (Preview)

Calculated columns are now available in preview for Direct Lake on OneLake semantic models. This has been one of the most requested capabiliti...

Power BI Blog—Updates and News | Microsoft Power BI 14 days ago 7

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Upgrade Power BI Dataflows Gen1 to Fabric Dataflows Gen2 with the Upgrade Wizard (Preview)

Upgrading Power BI Dataflows Gen1 is now easier with the Dataflows Upgrade Wizard. Now in preview for eligible workspaces assigned to Fabric c...

Power BI Blog—Updates and News | Microsoft Power BI 14 days ago 6

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The AI Semantic Layer You Probably Already Have

If your organization uses Power BI, you own something most companies chasing AI are desperately trying to build. You just may not know it by n...

Power BI Blog—Updates and News | Microsoft Power BI 18 days ago 10

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Power BI August 2026 Feature Summary

Welcome to the August 2026 Power BI Feature Summary! This month includes updates across reporting, modeling, data connectivity, mobile, embed...

Power BI Blog—Updates and News | Microsoft Power BI 18 days ago 19

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Edit your Power BI projects anywhere and reload them instantly in Power BI Desktop (Preview)

Power BI Projects (PBIP) make reports and semantic models file-based, enabling source control, automation, and other developer workflows. You ...

Power BI Blog—Updates and News | Microsoft Power BI 20 days ago 11

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Using Custom SQL Pools to balance performance and cost in Fabric Data Warehouse

One of the most common questions I hear from customers as they move to an allocation-based billing model is:"What levers do I actually have if...

Power BI Blog—Updates and News | Microsoft Power BI 21 days ago 5

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TMDL View on the web: Edit semantic models as code in your browser (Preview)

TMDL View on the Web is a feature in Power BI that enables developers to view and edit semantic models as code directly in the browser using T...

Power BI Blog—Updates and News | Microsoft Power BI 28 days ago 11

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Deep dive into conditional formatting for lines and legends

Bring your Power BI reports to life with dynamic conditional formatting for lines and legends that stays consistent and updates automatically ...

Power BI Blog—Updates and News | Microsoft Power BI 1 month ago 13