I connected DAX Studio to a published Power BI semantic model, turned on Server Timings and ran a DAX query. When the query finished I clicked the Info button at the top of the Server Timings pane, ...

Can you call a DAX UDF from Power BI Copilot? I was asked this question by Jake Duddy during the livestream on Power BI Copilot I did with Reid Havens last week. I already knew it was possible because ...

Continuing my (already very long) series on what information you should be adding to the AI Instructions of your semantic model and why, in this post I’ll show you the benefits of adding the DAX ...

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 ...

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 address the most difficult (in terms of deciding what to do, rather than how ...

AI is meant to help us automate boring tasks, and what could be more boring than creating documentation for your Power BI semantic models? It’s such a tedious task that most people don’t bother; there ...

There’s a new M function rolling out now that allows you to read metadata from Delta tables (at the time of writing it’s available in Dataflows Gen2 and will be available soon in Desktop). It builds ...

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, ...

People still use Power BI semantic models as data sources all the time. This is either because they don’t know any better, because they can’t get access to the underlying data sources, or because they ...

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 ...