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.

Oct 20, 2024 · Some time ago I wrote a post about how you can use the DISCOVER_CALC_DEPENDENCY DMV to get a list of all the tables, columns and relationships referenced by a DAX query. That’s really useful and indeed the new INFO.CALCDEPENDENCY DAX function allows you to do the same thing without all the complexity of calling a DMV. However this doesn’t quite give you everything you need to solve one ...

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).

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 ...

Apr 13, 2020 · [Update September 2023: now that Power BI is part of Microsoft Fabric, the new features of Fabric make it much easier to solve this problem as described here]. Power BI incremental refresh is a very powerful feature and now it’s available in Shared capacity (not just Premium) everyone can use it. It’s designed for scenarios where you have a data warehouse running on a relational database ...

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 …

Dec 30, 2024 · Every year on this date I write a post reflecting on the previous year but, as you've probably guessed from the title, this is a special year: it's twenty years since I started writing this blog. Twenty years ago today on the 30th of December 2004 I …

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.

Oct 13, 2024 · I concur with your thoughts. with advancements in genai models and power bi moving towards it (gpt4 to gpt4o) plus letting users to train how the copilot should answer from their semantic model (like that in AI skills), soon copilot in pbi will do a much much better job and the c-suite who wants answers in chatty format will …

Jan 26, 2025 · So, I’d be curious about your thoughts on this: Let’s say that we developed and curated a big Semantic Model, connecting multiple Facts and Dimension tables, adding a bunch a business rules – on the tables but also on the DAX measures – and finished with a …