by Chris Webb | Dec 1, 2024 | Chris Webb
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 possibilities for...
by Chris Webb | Nov 24, 2024 | Chris Webb
If you’ve looked into using Copilot with Power BI, you’ll know that you need a capacity to use it: a P1/F64 or greater. Something I learned recently, though, is that the current Power BI Copilot capabilities are only accessible via a side pane to a report and it’s the...
by Chris Webb | Nov 17, 2024 | Chris Webb
I had meant to follow up my recent post on how to find the columns touched by a DAX query by writing one on how to use this technique to find the size of these columns in memory, so you can find the total size of the columns that need to be paged into memory when a...
by Chris Webb | Nov 10, 2024 | Chris Webb
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. Let’s say you have a semantic model that...
by Chris Webb | Nov 3, 2024 | Chris Webb
My post from a few months ago about the dangers of DAX measures that never return blank attracted quite a lot of attention – this is a hot topic on the forums and adding zeros to measures is a common cause of memory errors in Power BI. In that post, though, I didn’t...
by Chris Webb | Oct 27, 2024 | Chris Webb
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. A while ago Rui...
