A workaround to allow you to create multiple tables in a Direct Lake semantic model linked to the same table in OneLake ...

So many cool Fabric features get announced at Fabcon that it’s easy to miss some of them. The fact that you can now not only generate Excel files from Fabric Dataflows Gen2, but that you have so much ...

Back in September 2024 I wrote a blog post on how to create multiple copies of the same dimension in a Direct Lake semantic model without creating copies of the underlying Delta table. Not long after ...

So many cool Fabric features get announced at Fabcon that it’s easy to miss some of them. The fact that you can now not only generate Excel files from Fabric Dataflows Gen2, but that you have so much ...

One of the most common errors you’ll see when working with Power Query in Power BI or Excel is this: It can occur with almost any data source and in a wide variety of different circumstances, and for ...

You probably know that semantic models in Power BI can use a fixed amount of memory. This is true of all types of semantic model – Import, Direct Lake and DirectQuery – but it’s not something you ...

Recently we announced an important new optimisation for DirectQuery datasets: the ability to run (some) of the queries generated by a single DAX query in parallel. You can read the blog post here: A ...

When you add a field to the filter pane in a Power BI report and select the “Basic filtering” filter type, in most cases you’ll see some numbers next to the field values: These numbers are counts of ...

So far in this series (see part 1, part 2 and part 3) I’ve looked at how you can create a Power Automate custom connector that uses the Power BI Enhanced Refresh API to kick off a dataset refresh.