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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you have a DirectQuery fact table in Power BI you can use user-defined aggregations to improve query performance; querying a smaller, summarised copy of your data in an Import mode aggregation ...

This week there was another big Copilot-related announcement for Power BI – but on the Excel blog. You can now analyse data from Power BI semantic models using ...

If you have a lot of Power BI semantic models that are scheduled to refresh at the same time in the Service then you may find that some of them fail with the following error: You’ve exceeded the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In my last post I talked about how to push Power BI Copilot to get answers from the semantic model rather than the report you’re looking at. If you want to do this you are probably getting worse ...

If there is sensitive data in your Power BI semantic model that you don’t want some users to see then you need to use row-level security or object-level security to control access to that data. You’re ...