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This has consequences for Power BI Copilot. For example, the prompt: Returns a message saying that Copilot can’t find any ...
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 ...
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 ...
I use a similar approach, but instead of exporting and editing the JSON, I pass the parameter value from another primary dataflow. Whenever amendments are needed, I set the parameter value to 10 ...
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 ...
Thanks so much to Chris for this informative post! Im a PM on the Power BI team supporting the Private Preview for this feature with Penny. As an update, we are interested in hearing feedback from ...
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 ...