Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on June 1st (Build Your First Agent in Copilot Studio) - https://t.co/V2LcdFGOUC Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, June 1st at 18:30 ET. Elayne Jones (Senior Solution Engineer at Microsoft) will show ...
Replicating BigQuery to Fabric Reloaded - https://t.co/wq7KVzISkn In a previous post, I referred to an engagement where we used the Fabric Copy Job activity to replicate Google BigQuery tables to Fabric, so we can use Direct Lake semantic models. A few months later, the clie...
Replicating BigQuery to Fabric Reloaded - https://t.co/wq7KVzISkn In a previous post, I referred to an engagement where we used the Fabric Copy Job activity to replicate Google BigQuery tables to Fabric, so we can use Direct Lake semantic models. A few months later, the clie...
Power BI Unmaterialized Columns - https://t.co/UxkpCdthke Coming back from a long vacation, I’ve almost missed this interesting Power BI enhancement: Power BI unmaterialized calculated columns. Normally, I avoid the traditional DAX calculated columns for a variety of reasons...
Direct Lake Composite Models - https://t.co/f6sIZ62QqX I’ve mentioned previously in the “A Couple of Direct Lake Gotchas” post that unlike Power BI reports, Excel surprised me by not showing user-defined hierarchies in a Direct Lake model. Direct Lake comes with other gotcha...
Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on March 2nd (Your First Steps in Microsoft Fabric Using Just SQL) - https://t.co/QdGlJcqDlR Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, March 2nd at 18:30 ET. Shabnam Watson will show you how you can apply you...
A Couple of Direct Lake Gotchas - https://t.co/YfYMiwHOsq I’m helping an enterprise client modernize their data analytics estate. As a part of this exercise, a SSAS Multidimensional financial cube must be converted to a Power BI semantic model. The challenge is that business...
Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on February 2nd (Power BI Translytical Taskflows) - https://t.co/0UvBZMKdnT Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, February 2nd at 18:30 ET. Sukhwant Kaur (Product Manager at Microsoft) will show you how s...
Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on January 5th (Visual Calculations in Power BI) - https://t.co/n87MOQhKtj Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, January 5th at 18:30 ET. Dean Jurecic will show you how Power BI visual calculations can si...
First Look at Fabric IQ: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - https://t.co/CLHXaCJJNv Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
Telegraph road got so deep and so wide
Like a rolling river…
The Telegraph Road, Dire Straits
At Ignite in November, 2025, Microsoft intro...
Performance and Cost Considerations from Power BI Pro/PPU to Fabric - https://t.co/3ilqrBWeCk What performance and cost considerations should you keep in mind if you are currently on Power BI Pro/PPU, but Fabric looks increasingly enticing?
Performance
Performance is d...
Prologika Newsletter Winter 2025 - https://t.co/JEOJN93CC9
If Microsoft Fabric is in your future, you need to come up with a strategy to get your data in Fabric OneLake. That’s because the holy grail of Fabric is the Delta Parquet file format. The good news is that all F...
Power BI Workspace Identity Authentication - https://t.co/XEhLAQWK15 What credentials do you use to refresh your Power BI semantic models from Azure SQL SKUs, such as Azure SQL Database. Probably your credentials or a designated Entra account? Both are not ideal for a variet...
Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on December 1st (Migrating Semantic Models to Fabric Direct Lake) - https://t.co/efORFK2sni Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, December 1st at 18:30 ET. I'll show you how to Fabric DirectLake semantic ...
SaaS Losers and Winners: Paylocity and Element - https://t.co/FAm0Y5ZOvj “We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia
To draw the line
The Mason-Dixon line”
“Sailing to Philadelphia”, Mark Knopfler
As I’ve said in the past ...
Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on November 3rd (Semantic Link Labs: A Link to the Future) - https://t.co/i6wlEKylow Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, November 3rd at 18:30 ET. Jason Romans (Microsoft MVP) will show you how to use S...
Replicating BigQuery to Fabric - https://t.co/MvgfgtG4os A recent engagement required replicating some DW tables from Google BigQuery to a Fabric Lakehouse. We considered the Fabric mirroring feature (back then in private preview, now publicly available) and learned some les...
Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on October 9th (Everything You Want to Know About SQL Databases in Fabric) - https://t.co/VHx6pbQE6i Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Thursday, October 9th (note that we are meeting on Thursday for this meet...
Prologika Newsletter Fall 2025 - https://t.co/XMDDGJlrFE Like the Ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes, who walked the streets of Athens with a lamp to find one honest man, I have been searching for a convincing Fabric feature for my clients. As Microsoft Fabric evolves, more...
Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on September 8th (End-to-End Azure DevOps for Data Engineering in Microsoft Fabric) - https://t.co/neoCCGQ31N Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, September 8th at 18:30 ET. Jeff Levy (Data Architect @ P...