A workaround to allow you to create multiple tables in a Direct Lake semantic model linked to the same table in OneLake ...

So many cool Fabric features get announced at Fabcon that it’s easy to miss some of them. The fact that you can now not only generate Excel files from Fabric Dataflows Gen2, but that you have so much ...

Back in September 2024 I wrote a blog post on how to create multiple copies of the same dimension in a Direct Lake semantic model without creating copies of the underlying Delta table. Not long after ...

One of the most common errors you’ll see when working with Power Query in Power BI or Excel is this: It can occur with almost any data source and in a wide variety of different circumstances, and for ...

Often, when calling web services from Power BI or Power Query, you’ll need to generate some JSON inside your query to send to these web services. The M language makes this relatively easy to do with ...

Power BI Premium has supported metadata translations – translations for table, column and measure names etc – for a while now. Kasper has a great blog showing how to use this feature here; Tabular ...

Recently we announced an important new optimisation for DirectQuery datasets: the ability to run (some) of the queries generated by a single DAX query in parallel. You can read the blog post here: A ...

If you read this post that was published on the Fabric blog back in July, you’ll know that each Power Query query in a Fabric Gen2 dataflow has a property that determines whether its output is staged ...

If you’re tuning refresh for a Power BI Import mode dataset one of the areas you’ll be most interested in is throughput, that is to say how quickly Power BI can read data from the data source. It can ...