There are a couple of flaws in the design of this semantic model that either individually or combined cause that warning message to appear. Remember that it only appears when Copilot thinks it needs ...

Not only do you get all the ETL to extract cost data from Azure and Power BI reports you need but there’s also a Fabric Data Agent so you can query your data in natural language! Aren’t Fabric costs ...

Following on from my blog post a few months ago about cool stuff in the Fabric Toolbox, there is now another really useful solution available there that anyone with Fabric capacities should check out: ...

There are a lot of really cool free, community-developed tools and resources out there for Power BI and Fabric – so many that it’s easy to miss announcements about them. In this post I thought I’d ...

One very common requirement when creating a Power BI report is the ability to apply a filter for the current day, week, month, quarter or year. There are several ways of implementing this: you could ...

One of the most confusing, under-documented and widely-misunderstood features of Power BI and Power Query (or Excel “Get & Transform” or whatever you want to call it) are the data privacy settings. I ...

For any Power BI person, Direct Lake mode is the killer feature of Fabric. Import mode report performance (or near enough) direct on data from the lake, with none of the waiting around for data to ...

Hybrid tables – tables which contain both Import mode and DirectQuery mode partitions to hold data from different time periods – have been around for a while. They are useful in cases where your ...

Everyone is excited about Power BI Copilot, and the newly-announced preview of being able to use Copilot to ask questions about all the data in your semantic model rather than just what is shown in a ...

Recently I’ve been working with the Power Query team to come up with some ways to help developers understand the data returned by the new Power Query diagnostics functionality. In this, the first of ...