Refreshing a Power BI semantic model with Fabric Eventstreams ...
Dec 8, 2024 · Following on from my last post where I showed how to send data from Power Automate to a Fabric Eventstream, in this post I’m going to show how to use it to solve one of my favourite problems: refreshing a Power BI semantic model that uses an Excel workbook stored in OneDrive as a source when that Excel workbook is modified.. Now before I go on I want to be clear that I know this is a ...
Solution for monitoring Power BI/Fabric on-prem data gateways
Oct 27, 2024 · If you’re the admin for a large Power BI/Fabric tenant you’ll know how important it is to monitor your on-premises data gateways: if they aren’t working then no-one will be able to refresh any semantic models or dataflows connected to on-prem sources.
Why Would You Use Power BI Copilot? - blog.crossjoin.co.uk
Oct 13, 2024 · I concur with your thoughts. with advancements in genai models and power bi moving towards it (gpt4 to gpt4o) plus letting users to train how the copilot should answer from their semantic model (like that in AI skills), soon copilot in pbi will do a much much better job and the c-suite who wants answers in chatty format will …
Chris Webb's BI Blog
Nov 24, 2024 · For me the biggest new feature in the January 2025 release of Power BI Desktop is the new TMDL View; many other people like Marco are excited about it too. For more advanced Power BI developers (and honestly, I don’t think you need to be that advanced to get value out of it) it makes certain editing tasks for semantic models much simpler, and while I won’t be abandoning the main Power BI ...
Chris Webb's BI Blog: Optimising The Performance Of Power …
Jun 7, 2020 · Found the answer myself. To only expand a selected column from the second table using a Table.Join, the easiest is to pre-prepare the second table before the merge operation, i.e. a sub-select on the second table as below
Why Setting Sort By Column Is Important For Power BI Copilot
Dec 22, 2024 · As a Power BI semantic model developer, one of the first things you will learn about is using the Sort By Column property to make sure the values in a column – for example days of the week or months of the year – are sorted correctly. Recently, though, I came across a situation where it was important to set it when you might not expect to have to in order to get good results from Copilot.
How Much Data Can You Load Into Power BI? - Chris Webb's BI Blog
Nov 21, 2022 · A quick thank you Chris… I’m below the beginner level when it comes to all things data and have been making very very ineffecient data sets using power query and power pivot (just downloaded power bi desktop.)
Chris Webb's BI Blog: Speed Up Power Query In Power BI Desktop …
Jun 6, 2021 · +1 on Lutz request here – we also desperate to get gateway processing up. Power Query import method take significantly longer to process than native SQL query (i.e. writing sql queries to obtain data) using gateway (don’t see the same difference using desktop).
Tuning Power BI Copilot With Summarize By - blog.crossjoin.co.uk
Nov 10, 2024 · Continuing my occasional series of ways you can improve the results you get from Power BI Copilot by setting properties on your semantic model, in this post I’ll look at how setting the Summarize By property can have an impact.
Send Data From Power Automate To Fabric Using Eventstreams
Dec 1, 2024 · Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence features are, for me, the most interesting things to learn about in the platform. I’m not going to pretend to be an expert in them – far from it – but they are quite easy to use and they open up some interesting …