Power BI News and Blogs

Welcome to the April Power BI update! Power BI’s April 2026 update is here, bringing continued improvements across Copilot and AI, reporting, visuals, and modeling. This release includes more flexibility when working with layouts and visuals, expanded Copilot experiences—especially on mobile—and several preview features that continue to […]

Translytical task flows take interactive Power BI reports to the next level where users can update records, add annotations, and trigger actions in external systems—all without leaving the report. With translytical task flows, report consumers become active participants. Instead of viewing data and then switching to another application to take […]

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 were there all along and which don’t prevent refreshes from completing are now being flagged. Documentation on this feature can … Continue reading […]

I’ve been working with Microsoft BI tools for 28 years now and for all that time Microsoft has been consistent in its belief that semantic models are a good thing. Fashions have changed and at different times the wider BI industry has agreed and disagreed with this belief; right now, semantic models are cool again … Continue reading Power BI […]

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 that I started getting comments that people who tried following my instructions were getting errors, and while some bugs … Continue reading […]

Updated on 20 April 2026: Thanks so much for all the engagement on this topic since the original publishing of this blog post on 2 April 2026. We’ve seen several recurring questions, and we’d like to clarify our position on a few key points.  More granular Fabric controls: Customers have asked for finer‑grained enablement […]

If you haven’t already, check out Arun Ulag’s hero blog “FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single, complete platform” for a complete look at all of our FabCon and SQLCon announcements across both Fabric and our database offerings.  The next evolution of in-report Copilot on the mobile app is now available … […]

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 control over the format that you can use this feature to build simple reports rather than plain … Continue reading Generating Excel Reports With […]

A few years ago I wrote this post on the subject of staging in Fabric Dataflows Gen2. In it I explained what staging is, how you can enable it for a query inside a Dataflow, and discussed the pros and cons of using it. However one thing I never got round to doing until this … Continue reading Query Folding And Staging In Fabric Dataflows Gen2 →

TMDL View on the Web will be available in the coming weeks, providing a powerful code-first semantic modelling experience directly to your browser.

If you haven’t already, check out Arun Ulag’s hero blog “FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single, complete platform” for a complete look at all of our FabCon and SQLCon announcements across both Fabric and our database offerings.  Power BI is the decision layer for millions of users because it doesn’t … […]

If you haven’t already, check out Arun Ulag’s hero blog “FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single, complete platform” for a complete look at all of our FabCon and SQLCon announcements across both Fabric and our database offerings.  Power BI Desktop visuals now start with a modern look. This preview introduces … […]

Welcome to the Power BI March 2026 Feature Summary—and welcome to FabCon! As FabCon gets underway, this month’s update reflects the momentum we’re seeing across Power BI and the conversations happening with customers right now. March brings a thoughtful set of improvements across Copilot, reporting, modeling, and data connectivity—focused […]

Partitioned Compute is a new feature in Fabric Dataflows that allows you to run certain operations inside a Dataflow query in parallel and therefore improve performance. While UI support is limited at the moment it can be used in any Dataflow by adding a single line of fairly simple M code and checking a box … Continue reading When Can […]

I have been spending a lot of time recently investigating the new performance-related features that have rolled out in Fabric Dataflows over the last few months, so expect a lot of blog posts on this subject in the near future. Probably my favourite of these features is Preview-Only steps: they make such a big difference … Continue reading A […]

If you want to build a reporting solution on SAP (S/4HANA or ECC) or Salesforce data in Fabric and don’t want to build everything from scratch then you should check out Business Process Solutions. It’s a free, Microsoft-developed solution currently in public preview; the announcement blog post from last year is here and you can … Continue […]

Previously known as the “text slicer” while in preview, this visual lets you type or paste values directly into a slicer to filter your report—no scrolling or searching through long lists required. What you can do with the input slicer Report consumers can quickly filter the report to what they are looking for using the … Continue reading […]

Welcome to the February Power BI update! Power BI’s February 2026 update is here, and it’s a good one. This release brings smarter Copilot and AI experiences, more flexible ways to interact with reports, polished visuals, and useful modeling enhancements—plus a few important updates to keep in mind. With FabCon right around the corner, […]

This is going to sound strange, but one of the things I like about tuning Power BI DirectQuery semantic models is that their generally-slower performance and the fact you can see the SQL queries that are generated to get data makes it much easier to understand some of the innermost workings of the Power BI … Continue reading Power BI, […]

If you’re performance tuning a Power BI report the most important thing you need to measure – and the thing your users certainly care about most – is how long it takes for a report page to load. Yet this isn’t something that is available anywhere in Power BI Desktop or in the Service (though … Continue reading Measuring Power BI Report […]

Original Post : Matt Allington, 24 Apr 2018 Background Technically you don’t need calendar tables to use Power BI, but for most reports that go beyond a simple Excel spreadsheet analysis, Calendars are an essential component of a successful Semantic Model.  There are many different approaches to creating and maintaining [...]Read More »

Level: Beginners Power BI has evolved significantly since Matt’s original publication of this article in 2016. While the foundational concepts remain relevant, modern features and best practices offer more secure, scalable, and collaborative ways to share content. This updated guide reflects the latest capabilities and recommendations for […]

Level: Beginners Original: Feb 2016 It has been many years since Matt wrote his first take on Calculated Columns vs Measures, back in 2014 when he wrote the blog post 5 common mistakes of self taught DAX students at PowerPivotPro.com.  Since then Matt expanded his ideas with the original release [...]Read More »

It’s one of those blog posts I write for my own reference as I often find myself needing this code. I… The post Write Data to Unattached Lakehouses with Fabric Notebooks appeared first on Prathy's Blog....

Understanding the relationships between datasets is crucial in data analytics, especially in the world of self-service BI. Sempy, a Python library unique… The post Exploring Relationships in Semantic Models with #SemPy appeared first on Prathy's Blog....