Documenting Power BI Semantic Models With Fabric Data Agents
AI is meant to help us automate boring tasks, and what could be more boring than creating documentation for your Power BI semantic models? It&...
6 days ago
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Two New Power BI/Power Query Books
It’s time for another one of my occasional posts about free books that I’ve been given that you might be interested to check out. ...
13 days ago
Memory Overhead Of Distinct Count Measures In Power BI
The series of blog posts I wrote last year on semantic model memory usage, in particular this post on the query memory limit and the “This que...
20 days ago
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...
27 days ago
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...
1 month 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 ...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
2 months 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...
2 months ago
