Koen Verbeeck in BI Quick Tricks to Make Your Power BI Model Smaller, More Efficient and Almost Certainly Faster Power BI has been a leading data visualization tool in the market for years. It can be used as a... 11 October 2024 13 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Debugging DAX with DAX Query View DAX Query View was created some time ago and it was a great tool to run DAX inside Power BI... 25 September 2024 3 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs PySpark: The flexibility of a loop Pyspark has many flexible syntaxes which are not so common to other languages. One of these syntaxes is the loop... 15 August 2024 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Microsoft Fabric: Differences Between %Run and Notebook.Run When developing notebooks in Microsoft Fabric, we have two different methods to call one notebook from another: %Run and MSSparkUtils.notebook.run... 31 July 2024 2 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Microsoft Fabric: Moving Dataflows Gen 2 to different workspaces Dataflows Gen 2 are not supported by source control and deployment pipelines yet. When we need to promote a dataflow... 17 July 2024 2 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Microsoft Fabric: New Features you should not miss Microsoft Build was full of new features announcements and the fact it was so close to the Fabric May Updates... 10 July 2024 2 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Microsoft Fabric: Ingesting from API’s and the JSON result Ingesting from API’s is a common task to build a Data Intelligence repository. When making this ingestion in a Fabric... 12 June 2024 7 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Purview and Microsoft Fabric: Better Together Microsoft create Purview, a data governance solution. Since Microsoft Fabric was in preview, there was a promise of a deeper... 29 May 2024 2 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Workspace Identity and Resource Instance Rules: More than simple features Sometimes, when a new feature is announced, it’s in fact hiding bigger changes on the entire environment. This is exactly... 22 May 2024 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Exploration Experience: Saving and Creating Datasets I have been talking about Data Exploration in Power BI on many of my sessions, specially the sessions about Data... 17 April 2024 2 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Model Optimization: Available In MDX Property Power BI Semantic Models have a property called Available In MDX. Each field in the model has this property and... 20 March 2024 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Reverse Creating the PBIP file from Source Control On my article about Source Control with GIT, Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, I illustrate how to use the PBIP... 06 March 2024 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Customizing Kusto (Data Explorer) Connections in Deployment pipeline When organizing our SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) in Power BI/Fabric, we use Deployment Pipelines and create rules to change connection... 28 February 2024 2 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs 4 Rules to follow on Microsoft Fabric Source Control Power BI and Fabric are implementing source control support. It’s a long-awaited feature for Power BI. However, it’s important to... 14 February 2024 4 min read
Ben Johnston in Blogs Feature Flags in Data Projects My motivation for writing this summary was an interaction with a project owner that didn’t understand why we couldn’t use... 01 February 2024 23 min read
BI Dennes Torres in BI Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches in Microsoft Fabric Nikola Ilic, best known as Data Mozart, published a great article and video about how to make semantic model data... 25 January 2024 9 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Power BI and Resource Graph: Why you should care Recently Azure Resource Graph was announced as a new connector in Power BI. Azure Resource Graph provides access to almost... 23 January 2024 1 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Fabric and Self-Service: Control who can use We can say Fabric is the evolution of the Power BI environment. Power BI is a self-service environment, and so... 17 January 2024 2 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Semantic Model: More than a Simple Name Change The animation on the top of this article tries to track the evolution of the enterprise architecture since SQL Server... 10 January 2024 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Fabric Notebooks and Deployment Pipelines On my article about Fabric source control extended features, I explained how Microsoft included the notebooks on the source control.... 13 December 2023 8 min read