I’ve been working with Microsoft BI tools for 28 years now and for all that time Microsoft has been consistent in its belief ...

A workaround to allow you to create multiple tables in a Direct Lake semantic model linked to the same table in OneLake ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most common errors you’ll see when working with Power Query in Power BI or Excel is this: It can occur with almost any data source and in a wide variety of different circumstances, and for ...

You probably know that semantic models in Power BI can use a fixed amount of memory. This is true of all types of semantic model – Import, Direct Lake and DirectQuery – but it’s not something you ...

There are a lot of articles and blog posts out there on how to handle OAuth2 authentication when connecting to REST APIs from Power Query in Power BI. However there is also a lot of confusion and ...

A long time ago someone – probably from the Power Query dev team – told me that adding primary keys to M tables could improve the performance of certain transformations in Power BI and Excel Power ...

If you’re working with large amounts of data in Power BI you may find that you have problems because: Your pbix file is very large You spend a long time waiting for refreshes to finish in Power BI ...

If you read this post that was published on the Fabric blog back in July, you’ll know that each Power Query query in a Fabric Gen2 dataflow has a property that determines whether its output is staged ...