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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 ...
Over the last few years one topic I have blogged about several times is how to link the detailed data about DAX query execution that can be found in Log Analytics – and now Workspace Monitoring – to ...
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’s such a tedious task that most people don’t bother; there ...
Book reviews for "Power Query beyong the user interface" and "Architecting Power BI Solutions in Fabric" ...
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 time playing around with them, and while I was doing that I ...
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 now generate Power Query queries. There are limitations ...
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 way of distributing workspaces across capacities in a Fabric ...
This is a post I’ve avoided writing for many years, and before I carry on let me make one thing clear: Doing bulk extracts of data from a Power BI semantic model is a **really** bad idea My colleague ...
Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence features are, for me, the most interesting things to learn about in the platform. I’m not going to pretend to be an expert in them – far from it – but they are quite ...
If you’re the admin for a large Power BI/Fabric tenant you’ll know how important it is to monitor your on-premises data gateways: if they aren’t working then no-one will be able to refresh any ...