by Chris Webb | Jan 14, 2024 | Chris Webb
Following on from my previous post showing how you can visualise the job graph for a Power BI Import mode semantic model refresh, I this post I will look at how you can interpret what the job graph tells you – specifically, explaining the concepts of blocking and...
by Chris Webb | Jan 7, 2024 | Chris Webb
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 –...
by Chris Webb | Dec 30, 2023 | Chris Webb
Every year, on the anniversary of the first-ever post on this blog, I write a post reflecting on what has happened to me professionally in the past year and this year the subject is obvious: Fabric. Of course I knew about, and indeed had been playing with, Fabric for...
by Chris Webb | Dec 23, 2023 | Chris Webb
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...
by Chris Webb | Dec 21, 2023 | Chris Webb
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...
by Chris Webb | Dec 17, 2023 | Chris Webb
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...