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
Koen Verbeeck in BI How to Stream Data from Azure Event Hubs into a Fabric Eventhouse At Microsoft Build 2024, Real-Time Intelligence was announced with the Real-Time hub as its centralized location for all data-in-motion. This... 26 July 2024 9 min read
Fabriano Richard in BI Microsoft Fabric, the Land of Wizards and Trolls In my previous article (What is Microsoft Fabric All About) I explained what Microsoft Fabric is, how it came about... 03 July 2024 9 min read
Koen Verbeeck in BI Choosing Between the Lakehouse and Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric Microsoft Fabric is a new centralized, AI-powered cloud data platform hosted by Microsoft. It combines several services of the existing... 10 June 2024 20 min read
BI Fabriano Richard in BI PowerBI premium capacity administration: dataset monitoring and tuning Over the years Power BI has evolved into a complex and varied ecosystem of tools and solutions, which in its... 13 May 2024 12 min read
Koen Verbeeck in BI How to Build Metadata Driven Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric Over the past years, “traditional” ETL development has morphed into data engineering, which has a more disciplined software engineering approach.... 06 May 2024 11 min read
BI Dennes Torres in BI Fabric and Azure SQL in a few clicks: Mirroring a Database Finally, mirroring is available for Fabric! You can mirror an Azure SQL to Fabric. It works for CosmoDB and Snowflake... 12 April 2024 11 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
BI Dennes Torres in BI Using Spark Jobs for Multiple Lakehouse Maintenance in Microsoft Fabric I have published videos and articles before about Lakehouse maintenance. In this article I want to address a missing point... 17 December 2023 12 min read
BI Dennes Torres in BI Source Control with GIT, Power BI and Microsoft Fabric Source control is fundamental when dealing with projects and sharing code between multiple developers. Power BI present some challenges related... 22 November 2023 24 min read
BI Fabriano Richard in BI What is Microsoft Fabric all about? In this article, we will introduce Microsoft Fabric and how it relates to Power BI Premium Capacity we will turn... 22 November 2023 11 min read
BI Dennes Torres in BI SQL Endpoints and Lakehouse UI Differences and Access Secrets There are some differences and secrets between the UI of a SQL Endpoint and the UI of a Lakehouse. I... 30 October 2023 7 min read
BI Dennes Torres in BI Using Virtual Network Data Gateways to Secure Access to Azure SQL in Power BI Power BI and Azure are two related services, but with a considerable independence between them. Power BI share the Azure... 27 March 2023 11 min read
BI Dennes Torres in BI Datamarts and exploratory analysis using Power BI During Build 2022, Microsoft announced a new feature, Datamarts for Power BI. MVP Dennes Torres explains this new feature and... 25 May 2022 24 min read
BI Dennes Torres in BI Azure Synapse Link for SQL: From production to a data warehouse in a few clicks Microsoft announced Azure Synapse Link for SQL. In this article, MVP Dennes Torres explains the new feature.… 24 May 2022 18 min read
BI Edward Pollack in BI Insights from the SSRS database The SSRS database contains a wealth of undocumented information that can help administrators. In this article, Edward Pollack explains how... 11 May 2022 17 min read
BI Dennes Torres in BI How to automate table level refresh in Power BI You can automate Power BI table refreshes using PowerShell, an Automation Account, and Runbook. Dennes Torres explains how in this... 18 April 2022 14 min read
BI Sanil Mhatre in BI Finding deeper insights with Topic Modeling Topic modeling can be used to find more detailed insights into text than a word cloud can provide. Sanil Mhatre... 06 April 2022 23 min read
BI Adam Aspin in BI Tips and tricks with DAX table functions in paginated reports There are several common challenges when creating paginated reports from Power BI datasets. In this article, Adam Aspin explains how... 22 March 2022 20 min read
BI Adam Aspin in BI DAX table functions for paginated reports: Part 2 To return detail data using DAX, use the table functions. Adam Aspin covers UNION, EXCEPT, INTERSECT, and CALCULATETABLE in this... 15 February 2022 12 min read