Wednesday/Thursday – Power BI Technology and More

Every Wednesday & Thursday, we look at a tech topic. This could be a new feature, how something works or how to troubleshoot something within Power BI technology, Reporting Services and Analysis Services.

This may also include the occasional topic relating to the Microsoft Data Platform as a whole, such as SQL Server or an Azure technology. Because of Power BI, there will also be content related to Office 365 and Azure Active Directory.

Edit your Direct Lake models directly in Power BI Desktop!

Creating Power BI Direct Lake models? You can now edit your Direct Lake semantic models right in Power BI Desktop! Patrick walks you through how! Live edit of Direct Lake models in Power BI Desktop [...]

Power BI Desktop Gets a DARK MODE Makeover!

We've been waiting a long time to get DARK MODE in Power BI Desktop! It's finally here. Harleen Kaur joins us to show everything you need to know to start using it. By Popular Demand: [...]

Why not a date and time table in Power BI instead?

We had a video talking about creating a Date and Time table in your Microsoft Fabric Warehouse. There were some comments centered around "why"??? Why not do that in Power BI? Patrick shows you!

A Few Ways GENERATE_SERIES Will Revolutionize Your Microsoft Fabric Warehouse Experience

Want to create a series of data within a Microsoft Fabric Warehouse? Patrick looks at how GENERATE_SERIES can help you instead of doing INSERT after INSERT which doesn't perform well. Scripts: https://github.com/guyinacube/demo-files/blob/master/video%20demos/Fabric/20241017%20-%20Generate%20Series.zip GENERATE_SERIES (Transact-SQL) https://learn.microsoft.com/sql/t-sql/functions/generate-series-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver16 [...]

Some GOTCHAs when using Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric

Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric can be very powerful but setting them up can sometimes have some frustrations. Patrick walks you through the challenges he hit and how he got around it. What is Mirroring in [...]

Design Engaging Power BI Report Page Tooltips Effortlessly

We've talked about Tooltips before, but this time Adam walks you through how to recreate his Report Page Tooltip in Power BI Desktop. Learn how you can make things a bit more exciting and engaging! [...]

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