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Visualising Power BI Import Mode Refresh Job Graphs

A few years ago a new pair of Profiler events was added for Power BI Import mode datasets (and indeed AAS models): the Job Graph events. I blogged about them here but they never got used by anyone because it was extremely difficult to extract useful data from them –...

Power Query Nested Data Types In Excel

A year ago support for nested data types in Excel was announced on the Excel blog, but the announcement didn’t have much detail about what nested data types are and the docs are quite vague too. I was recently asked how to create a nested data type and while it turns...

Project Sophia: An AI-Powered Business Research Canvas

I don’t know how, but somehow I missed the announcement of the preview of Project Sophia at Ignite (it’s not built by the Fabric product group and I’ve been distracted by all the cool stuff we’re working on at the moment, so…). If you’re a fan of Power BI and data in...

Incremental Refresh On Delta Tables In Power BI

One of the coolest features in Fabric is Direct Lake mode, which allows you to build Power BI reports directly on top of Delta tables in your data lake without having to wait for a semantic model to refresh. However not everyone is ready for Fabric yet so there’s also...