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 ...

A blog about Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, SQL Server Analysis Services (Multidimensional and Tabular), MDX, DAX, Power Pivot, Power Query and Excel for BI ...

There are a lot of articles and blog posts out there on how to handle OAuth2 authentication when connecting to REST APIs from Power Query in Power BI. However there is also a lot of confusion and ...

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 ...

If you missed out on the big announcement last week about Tabular Model Definition Language and the future of Power BI version control at SQLBits last week, then the recording of the session has al… ...

In the last two posts in this series I showed how removing columns from the tables used in a Power Query merge operation can improve refresh performance. In this post I’ll show you a different trick ...

When you connect to a relational database like SQL Server in Power BI/Power Query/Excel Get & Transform you have two choices about how to get the data you need: You can choose a table from the ...

You probably know that semantic models in Power BI can use a fixed amount of memory. This is true of all types of semantic model – Import, Direct Lake and DirectQuery – but it’s not something you ...

If you’re working with large amounts of data in Power BI you may find that you have problems because: Your pbix file is very large You spend a long time waiting for refreshes to finish in Power BI ...

Here’s a recording of a session I did for the Manchester (UK) Power BI user group recently on best practices for DirectQuery mode in Power BI: I’ve done it for a few other groups over the last six ...