While the paper was commissioned by Microsoft it was written by an independent expert, Liping Huang, who has extensive expertise with Power BI and Databricks and who has worked for both Microsoft and ...

I then created a Shape Map visual, dragged the Country Name and Electorate measures into it, went to the Map Settings properties and set the Type to “URL” and pasted in the URL of the GeoJSON file ...

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 ...

There’s so much going on in the Fabric community that it can be hard to keep up with it all. Semantic Link Labs is a great example: in the six months or so since I last had a proper look at it my ...

If, like me (and Ruth), you spend your life in Power BI but have a lingering feeling that you should get round to learning Python for data analysis sometime then here’s something you should check out: ...

If you’ve heard about the new Direct Lake mode for Power BI datasets in Fabric you’ll know that it gives you the query performance of Import mode (well, almost) without the need to actually import any ...

Power BI Premium has supported metadata translations – translations for table, column and measure names etc – for a while now. Kasper has a great blog showing how to use this feature here; Tabular ...

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 ...

Since March 2026, Power BI semantic models have started showing warnings in their Refresh History in the Service. This has scared a few people but in fact all that is happening is that errors which ...

In last week’s post I mentioned that while Power BI reports (unlike Excel PivotTables) do not support the Detail Rows Expression feature, it is possible to partially work around this limitation by ...

One of many cool things about Power Query is the way that it allows you to retrieve data from web services and load it into Excel. While this is a subject that lots of people (including me) have ...