In yet another entry in my series on what you should be doing in Power BI Copilot AI Instructions, in this post I want to ...

Over the last few years one topic I have blogged about several times is how to link the detailed data about DAX query execution that can be found in Log Analytics – and now Workspace Monitoring – 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 ...

My name is Chris Webb, and I work on the Fabric CAT team at Microsoft. I blog about Power BI, Power Query, SQL Server Analysis Services, Azure Analysis Services and Excel. View all posts by Chris Webb ...

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 ...

Excel Copilot can generate Power Query queriesAlthough 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 ...

If you’re working with slow data sources in Power BI/Fabric dataflows then you’re probably aware that validation (for Gen1 dataflows) or publishing (for Gen2 dataflows) them can sometimes take a long ...

How to slice data with SolverAfter 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 ...

Slow queries often use a lot of CUsThe recent announcement of Surge Protection gives Fabric/Power BI capacity admins a way to restrict the impact of background operations on a capacity, preventing ...

This is a post I’ve avoided writing for many years, and before I carry on let me make one thing clear: Doing bulk extracts of data from a Power BI semantic model is a **really** bad idea My colleague ...

Some time ago I wrote a post about how you can use the DISCOVER_CALC_DEPENDENCY DMV to get a list of all the tables, columns and relationships referenced by a DAX query. That’s really useful and ...