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Last week, I was attending and speaking at the first ever Fabric February, a great in-person conference dedicated to Microsoft Fabric taking place in Oslo – Norway. (I recommend attending fut…

Recently, I was on a call with a good friend and former colleague, just to exchange some thoughts, knowledge and ideas. We shared some things we’re working on and what we think of the evolvem…

Looks like the Power BI team might’ve dropped the Feb 2024 Desktop version a bit early. And you know what? I’m not mad at all. It’s got this feature I’ve been waiting for fo…

How the query caching feature can improve report performance

We are excited to announce that the VNet Data Gateway is now GA! Read the blog to find out more and get started using the VNet Data Gateway to secure your production workloads.

Microsoft Fabric and Open AI Ever wondered how cutting-edge technology can transform the way we explore and understand vast datasets? Join me on a journey through the code as we harness the power of OpenAI to unlock insights from a rich dataset of the city of London. Our exploration begins with the London Workplace Zone … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/fabric-change-the-game-unleashing-the-power-of-microsoft-fabric-and-openai-for-dataset-search/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Fabric Change the Game: <strong>Unleashing the Power of Microsoft Fabric and OpenAI for Dataset Search</strong>“</span></a>

During January 2024, we announced the worldwide availability for public preview of Copilot in Microsoft Fabric. This preview includes Copilot for Power BI, Data Factory and Data Science & Data Engineering. With the Copilot in preview, Microsoft Fabric brings an improved way to transform, enrich and analyze data, and shortens the time to insights.  Today, we announce that Copilot … Continue reading “Announcing Fabric Copilot pricing “

Microsoft Fabric REST APIs allow users and developers to automate common actions and programmatically interact with Fabric. This allows teams and organizations to develop solutions that can scale and integrate with other parts of their systems. Before today, OneLake shortcuts could only be created using the Fabric web experience. This meant that our users were … Continue reading “OneLake Shortcuts APIs available in Preview”

As part of our continued tooling improvements, we have enhanced the experience for creating Direct Lake semantic models in Microsoft Fabric. This applies to semantic models created by clicking the New semantic model button from the Lakehouse.

In this article, we look at what we need to make a good dashboard, and some important considerations with access & permissions

I had a simple data ingestion use case, Notebook A inserts data to a Delta Table every 5 minutes and Notebook B backfills the same table with new fields but only at 4 am. Initially I just scheduled…

New capabilities for Power BI Report Server in the January 2024 release.

This blog post compares the costs and how to ingest data using either Dataflow Gen2 or Notebooks in Microsoft Fabric and which one to potentially use.

Explore Fabric Notebooks: toggle layouts, freeze/lock cells, embed images, text replacement, and more

Connect to SQL endpoint using pyodbc and pandas

Optimize Fabric REST API with FabricRestClient for auto-authentication and efficient session management in notebooks. semantic link sempy

The maximum value this property can be set to in Premium has been increased

In this short post, we will explore how to create a DAX measure for Top N ranking with drill down. Purpose of this DAX Measure In many business scenarios, understanding the performance of products at different levels of a hierarchy (such as Category, SubCategory, and Product) is crucial. The ‘Top N Ranking with Drill Down’ measure in DAX allows users to dynamically rank products at each level of this hierarchy based on their sales performance. This dynamic capability means that...p class="read-more"a class="btn btn-default" href="https://datakuity.com/2024/01/23/dax-measure-top-n-ranking-with-drill-down/" Read Morespan class="screen-reader-text" Read More/span/a/p

With Power Apps user defined functions we can write a formula once and reuse the logic many times throughout an app.

We delve into a comprehensive curriculum centered around Microsoft Fabric, aimed at empowering your students in cloud-powered app development.

Report developers can add Copilot Prompts that rerun when data is filtered!

The fastest way to patch all items in a Power Apps gallery is to batch the updates using a little-known variation of the patch function.

I posted about the value of certifications for career growth back in 2020, where I essentially said that certifications are a great way to build and validate knowledge and skills, and can help meet…

Get the job graph for a refresh in a table using a dataflow

Are you ready to unleash your creativity and build amazing solutions with Microsoft Fabric and AI? If so, join us for Hack Together: The Microsoft Fabric Global AI Hack, a virtual event where you can learn, experiment, and hack together with the new Copilot and AI features in Microsoft Fabric! What is Hack Together? Hack … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/hack-together-the-microsoft-fabric-global-ai-hack/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> “Hack Together: The Microsoft Fabric Global AI Hack”</span></a>

✨Semantic Link unlocks the potential to query data from Power BI's semantic models, which are already cleaned and refined into a gold models, using tools such as Pandas and Spark APIs. This will provide a whole of possibilities for Data Scientists and ML applications.

Fabric Features not found in Azure Synapse or Power BI – Data Wrangler The second element in my series on new Fabric Features is Data Wrangler. Data Wrangler is an entirely new feature found inside…

In podcast #286 we take the time to review an older video of John Cleese giving a talk about the Creative Process in Management. We thought this would be an outstanding conversation to draw parallels [...]