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There’s a new data culture video! After I finished my 2020 video and blog series on building a data culture, I figured I would revisit this topic at some point. I didn’t expect it to ta…

This article explains a typical pattern to optimize a SUMX iterator by reducing the number of callbacks in the expression. Pushing calculations down to the

This article is part 8 in a series on data exploration, and the common struggles that we all face when trying to learn something new.

Ordering food the way businesses ask their data teams for things: #data #dataobservability | 43 comments on LinkedIn

Refreshing a Direct Lake Power BI dataset in Fabric points it at the latest version of the data in your Lakehouse

New data flavors require new ways for storing it! Learn everything you need to know about the Parquet file format

One of the many things I consider epic regarding Microsoft Fabric is the fact that the compute engines that fuel the magic of Fabric have been enabled to read natively from a new storage format. This new storage format is the delta table format (in short, CRUD-enabled parquet files).

Explore Power BI's new 'Visual Calculations'. Jay ter Heerdt unveils faster DAX calculations at Persian Power BI User Group. Watch now!

If you feel like the pace and volume of updates surrounding Power BI have increased, you’re not alone. In this article, I discuss why many people feel like “it’s just too much” lately, why that’s a problem, and what we might do about it.

We have some very exciting news to share with you today! We are thrilled to announce that we have just launched the public preview of Direct Lake mode for Power BI datasets in Fabric! Fabric is taking a bold bet on open data formats in OneLake.

This article describes how to apply conditional formatting on measures picked from a slicer and implemented using two techniques: field parameters and calcu

Have you ever dreamed of writing SQL to query the data from Power BI semantic model? Thanks to Semantic Link feature, it's now dream comes true!

Discover a comprehensive Content hub dedicated to Microsoft Fabric, featuring blogs and videos. Stay up-to-date with the latest news.

Use Azure OpenAI Service to solve a large number of natural language tasks through prompting the completion API.

It's not uncommon to develop a desire to create more unusual, colorful, eye-catching charts as you gain skills and knowledge in the data visualization sphere. Keep in mind, however, the importance of ensuring that the insights you're trying to share in your visuals are clear to your audience.

We are pleased to introduce the Public Preview of semantic link, an innovative feature that seamlessly connects Power BI datasets with Synapse Data Science within Microsoft Fabric. As the gold layer in a medallion architecture, Power BI datasets contain the most refined and valuable data in your organization. With semantic link, we unlock this data’s … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/semantic-link-use-fabric-notebooks-and-power-bi-datasets-for-machine-learning-data-validation-and-more/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Semantic link in Microsoft Fabric: Bridging BI and Data Science”</span></a>

Learn how to create triggers in design mode for Data Activator.

Item types and the icons that represent them are the heart of Fabric—compiling sets of complex capabilities into powerful objects that allow you to seamlessly work with your data. As we aim to expand Fabric as platform, stewarding a scalable ecosystem of icons to represent this evolving set of capabilities is critical. In this post, I’ll cover how the Fabric UX team developed this ecosystem, emphasizing contextual categorization and intentional use of color as it now exists in Fabric.

In the previous blog, I wrote about data temperature as part of Fabric when you’re using Direct Lake storage mode. In that blog, I explained how you can get insights in the temperature of a c…

In this blog post I show how to create Keys into your data warehouse table for #MicrosoftFabric data warehouses.

Announcing the Fabric Roadmap. One place you can see what we are working on and when you can expect it to be available.

We are thrilled to announce that Data Activator is now in public preview and is enabled for all existing Microsoft Fabric users. If you have not already signed up for Fabric, then your administrator can enable Data Activator by signing up for the Fabric trial, then enabling “Data Activator (preview)” in your Fabric settings: Figure … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-data-activator-public-preview/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Announcing the Data Activator public preview “</span></a>

We are thrilled to announce that Data Activator is now in public preview and is enabled for all existing Microsoft Fabric users. If you have not already signed up for Fabric, then your administrator can enable Data Activator by signing up for the Fabric trial, then enabling “Data Activator (preview)” in your Fabric settings: Figure … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-data-activator-public-preview/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Announcing the Data Activator public preview “</span></a>

We are pleased to introduce the Public Preview of semantic link, an innovative feature that seamlessly connects Power BI datasets with Synapse Data Science within Microsoft Fabric. As the gold layer in a medallion architecture, Power BI datasets contain the most refined and valuable data in your organization. With semantic link, we unlock this data’s … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/semantic-link-use-fabric-notebooks-and-power-bi-datasets-for-machine-learning-data-validation-and-more/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Semantic link in Microsoft Fabric: Bridging BI and Data Science”</span></a>

Note: This blog is in continuation of the announcement of modern controls coming to canvas apps & new look for model driven apps. You can find the August 2023 updates here. Modern controls updates in canvas apps We made additional progress in the month of September on the journey to modernize Power Apps with the…

Announcement Announcing an end-to-end workshop on how you can build a powerful data analytics solution using Microsoft Fabric, to handle large-scale and complex data sets. This workshop provides you with a working knowledge on how to: The only pre-requisite to complete the workshop is a Microsoft Fabric License or alternatively you can Start the Fabric … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-an-end-to-end-workshop-analyzing-wildlife-data-with-microsoft-fabric/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Announcing an end-to-end workshop: Analyzing Wildlife Data with Microsoft Fabric”</span></a>

Understand how a Fabric KQL Database consumes capacity in Microsoft Fabric.