Oct 27, 2024 · 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 semantic models or dataflows connected to on-prem sources.

Dec 1, 2024 · For me the biggest new feature in the January 2025 release of Power BI Desktop is the new TMDL View; many other people like Marco are excited about it too. For more advanced Power BI developers (and honestly, I don’t think you need to be that advanced to get value out of it) it makes certain editing tasks for semantic models much simpler, and while I won’t be abandoning the main Power BI ...

Nov 10, 2024 · Continuing my occasional series of ways you can improve the results you get from Power BI Copilot by setting properties on your semantic model, in this post I’ll look at how setting the Summarize By property can have an impact.

Dec 1, 2024 · 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 easy to use and they open up some interesting …

Jun 7, 2020 · Found the answer myself. To only expand a selected column from the second table using a Table.Join, the easiest is to pre-prepare the second table before the merge operation, i.e. a sub-select on the second table as below

Sep 22, 2024 · On my LinkedIn feed this morning I saw an amazing demo from Brian Julius showing how you can use AI to generate code for Python visuals in Power BI, immediately followed by this video from Marco Russo warning us not to believe all the hype about AI. I guess I, like most people, am waiting to see what turns out to be useful in the real world as a result of all of the current investment in AI.

Jun 6, 2021 · +1 on Lutz request here – we also desperate to get gateway processing up. Power Query import method take significantly longer to process than native SQL query (i.e. writing sql queries to obtain data) using gateway (don’t see the same difference using desktop).

Nov 24, 2024 · If you’ve looked into using Copilot with Power BI, you’ll know that you need a capacity to use it: a P1/F64 or greater.Something I learned recently, though, is that the current Power BI Copilot capabilities are only accessible via a side pane to a report and it’s the report that needs to be stored in a workspace on a P1/F64+ capacity …

Dec 29, 2024 · I have known for a while that setting the Data Category property on a column can influence the results you get from Power BI Copilot but I have struggled to find a scenario where it actually makes a noticeable difference. My sources on the Power BI Copilot team told me that Copilot does consider geographic categories (which are exposed in the Power BI Desktop UI) and date categories (which are ...

Nov 21, 2022 · A quick thank you Chris… I’m below the beginner level when it comes to all things data and have been making very very ineffecient data sets using power query and power pivot (just downloaded power bi desktop.)