Continuing my series of posts on Power BI Copilot and the type of things you should be including in AI Instructions, today I ...

As you probably know, I work on the Fabric Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. Apart from advising customers a lot of our team’s time is spent collecting feedback about Fabric and sending it back to ...

Without a doubt the most important new feature in Power BI Copilot is AI Instructions: it opens up an immense number of possibilities but it also starts off as a blank slate, which raises the question ...

AI is meant to help us automate boring tasks, and what could be more boring than creating documentation for your Power BI semantic models? It’s such a tedious task that most people don’t bother; there ...

It’s time for another one of my occasional posts about free books that I’ve been given that you might be interested to check out. The usual disclaimers apply: these aren’t impartial, detailed reviews ...

Since the November 2024 Power BI release blog post announced that queries sent to Snowflake by Power BI include a query tag I’ve had a lot of questions from people who couldn’t see this happening or ...

Now that Fabric Data Agents (what used to be called AI Skills) can use Power BI semantic models as a data source I’ve been spending some time playing around with them, and while I was doing that I ...

Although it was announced in this blog post on the Microsoft 365 Insider blog recently, you might have missed the news that Excel Copilot can now generate Power Query queries. There are limitations ...

If you’re working with slow data sources in Power BI/Fabric dataflows then you’re probably aware that validation (for Gen1 dataflows) or publishing (for Gen2 dataflows) them can sometimes take a long ...

After years of meaning to learn how to use Excel Solver, this week I’ve finally made a start: I want to use it to work out the optimal way of distributing workspaces across capacities in a Fabric ...

I’m sure you already know how to configure scheduled refresh for your semantic models in Power BI. While the options you have for controlling when refresh takes place are generally good enough – you ...

People still use Power BI semantic models as data sources all the time. This is either because they don’t know any better, because they can’t get access to the underlying data sources, or because they ...