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 ...

A lot of new documentation was published recently around Fabric capacities, including documentation on how to size and govern capacities and how to troubleshoot problems with capacities. The latter ...

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 ...

If there are specific ways you want your data to be visualised by Power BI Copilot then you have two options. You can use Verified Answers to link questions to visuals on your reports and can even set ...

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 ...

The recent announcement of Surge Protection gives Fabric/Power BI capacity admins a way to restrict the impact of background operations on a capacity, preventing them from causing throttling. However, ...

If you’re using deployment pipelines with Direct Lake semantic models in Power BI you’ll have found that when you deploy your model from one stage to another by default the model still points to the ...

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 ...

DAX is incredibly powerful but it’s also hard to learn. Up until recently if you were struggling to write a DAX measure you’d probably go to your favourite search engine, search for blog posts or ...