by Chris Webb | Sep 27, 2026 | Chris Webb
There are some nice improvements to Power Query integration in the latest version of Power BI Report Builder that, while they are documented, didn’t get an official blog post but which I think deserve to be highlighted. First of all the “Get Data” button has been...
by Chris Webb | Sep 20, 2026 | Chris Webb
A few weeks ago I wrote about how Semantic Link Labs now has tools with interactive UIs and showed how you could use this to view lineage and so Vertipaq-Analyzer-stuff in a notebook. I didn’t show what I think is the coolest new feature though: the ability to find...
by Chris Webb | Sep 13, 2026 | Chris Webb
Here’s a situation I’ve found myself in many times. You’re called to help someone whose Power BI report is suddenly very slow. You ask whether any changes were made to the semantic model around the time performance got worse and the answer is no, absolutely not. You...
by Chris Webb | Sep 6, 2026 | Chris Webb
In case you haven’t already seen the blog post on the Power BI blog or the discussion on LinkedIn, we at Microsoft published a new white paper last week to help you decide which storage mode to use when you’re using Power BI to create semantic models and reports on...
by Chris Webb | Aug 30, 2026 | Chris Webb
Several years ago I wrote a very popular blog post about how to store images for your reports inside your Power BI semantic model. It solved the problem of how you could use display images (for example of products) inside your reports without making those images...
by Chris Webb | Aug 23, 2026 | Chris Webb
There’s so much going on in the Fabric community that it can be hard to keep up with it all. Semantic Link Labs is a great example: in the six months or so since I last had a proper look at it my colleague Michael Kovalsky has done a whole load of cool things and it...
