Continuing my series of posts on Power BI Copilot and the type of things you should be including in AI Instructions, today I ...

As you probably know, I work on the Fabric Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. Apart from advising customers a lot of our team’s time is spent collecting feedback about Fabric and sending it back to ...

Without a doubt the most important new feature in Power BI Copilot is AI Instructions: it opens up an immense number of possibilities but it also starts off as a blank slate, which raises the question ...

As you probably know, I work on the Fabric Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. Apart from advising customers a lot of our team’s time is spent collecting feedback about Fabric and sending it back to ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the last two posts in this series I showed how removing columns from the tables used in a Power Query merge operation can improve refresh performance. In this post I’ll show you a different trick ...

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 ...

Dynamic M parameters are incredibly useful in Power BI when using DirectQuery mode because they allow you to pass values from your report direct to your data source query, bypassing Power BI’s own SQL ...

[Update September 2023: now that Power BI is part of Microsoft Fabric, the new features of Fabric make it much easier to solve this problem as described here] Power BI incremental refresh is a very ...

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’re working with DirectQuery in Power BI then one of the most important properties you can set on your dataset is the “Maximum connections per data source ...