Microsoft Fabric Dennes Torres in Microsoft Fabric Using a Service Account in Microsoft Fabric Applications should never depend on user accounts for their own authentication. User accounts have unique security configurations, such as MFA and password expiration. Applications can’t... 16 October 2024 4 min read
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 self-service data analysis tool, or... 11 October 2024 13 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Cloud Connections in Microsoft Fabric I wrote about cloud connections when they were in a very early stage. Cloud connections evolved and are now sharable. We call the “regular” connection... 09 October 2024 4 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 environment. However, testing a measure... 25 September 2024 3 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Infinity Notebook Loop in Fabric using Data Activator Data Activator allow us to make an interesting workaround for infinity notebook executions. Infinity execution loop is interesting for constant data ingestion, but Fabric doesn’t... 20 September 2024 4 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Data Activator: The secrets of monitoring alerts Data Activator supports email and Teams alerts. These are good options when we would like to monitor some information and receive alerts about it. However,... 11 September 2024 2 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 format. Loops in PySpark can... 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 We need to decide which... 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 from Dev to Test and... 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 only helped to overwhelm us... 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 Lakehouse, there are many tricks... 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 integration between Fabric and this... 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 what happens with these Workspace... 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 Marts. The new data exploration... 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 we can only see or... 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 file format to include Power BI... 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 configurations every time we promote... 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 highlight some basic principles which... 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 feature flags directly in Power... 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 available in Microsoft Fabric. This... 25 January 2024 9 min read
