It has been roughly two years since the last update on the Power BI Model Documenter, an external tool that I developed to auto-document Power BI Semantic Models. Back then, we still called it datasets though. Looking at the stats of my website, the model documenter and related posts/pages are still most read on my …
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Lately it's copilot before and after in all Microsoft communications and announcements. Also, during the Fabric Community Conference in Las Vegas where I was last week, it was hard to keep count of the number of times copilot was mentioned. Next to Microsoft communications, everyday conversations with customers and colleagues include copilots everywhere too. Which …
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You might have seen some buzz around already, although the official blog post is not out yet, the February release of Power BI desktop is already available to download. After a month waiting (traditionally, there is no January update) it has some great new features in it! Not only Tabular Model Definition Language is there …
Today, I run into an issue by adding a service principal to a workspace. To my experience so far, this should be straight forward and a matter of adding with the right permissions in the workspace settings. However, for some reason I couldn't get it to work. In this blog I will elaborate on what …
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Getting more insights in the telemetry of your Power BI dataset is always interesting. Especially if you share your Power BI dataset for self-service purposes to build new reports on top of your managed dataset, you might want to know who is actually using in and what queries are they executing against your datasets. Besides …
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The seventh and last blog in the storytelling series. Took a while before writing it and finishing this blog series. Up front I promised to publish a blog every week, but that simply didn't work out regarding time. Besides that, the last topic in the storytelling series is also related to my latest presentation about …
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It has been a month since my last blog. Busy times with a lot of interesting projects, so less time for writing blogs. Last weekend I was traveling to Power Saturday in Paris. So now I finally had some time to write the blog I was thinking about for a while. Dataflows! Power BI dataflows …
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Posting a blog on Sunday, yeah...why not. This time posted from the beautiful city of Stockholm. I traveled to Stockholm to attend SQL Saturday Stockholm #851 this weekend as a speaker. Today, Sunday, I'm still here to do some sight seeing. So I wrote this blog post with the below shown view. Could be worse... …
It has been a month since my last blog post. So, it was about time for new content! Since last month I'm busy preparing for the Power Platform Summit at the end of March in Amsterdam, so not much time left. Find more about the summit on my events page. So far so good, now time …
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We live in a busy and stressful era. In our daily business we can not wait for weeks, months or even longer to get our insights. So we need to deliver faster. Therefor we are working agile to realize continuous delivery of results. The agile approach helps us to deliver small artifacts to the end-user …
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