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If you haven’t already, check out Arun Ulag’s hero blog “FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single, complete platform” for a complete look at all of our FabCon and SQLCon announcements across both Fabric and our database offerings. TMDL View on the Web will be available in the coming weeks, providing […]
This post first appeared at https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Power-BI-Updates-Blog/TMDL-View-on-the-Web-Preview/ba-p/5173917. The author is saralamTMDL View on the Web will be available in the coming weeks, providing a powerful code-first semantic modelling experience directly to your browser. This post first appeared at https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/tmdl-view-on-the-web-preview/. The author is Read More
This post first appeared at https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/tmdl-view-on-the-web-preview/. The author isIf you haven’t already, check out Arun Ulag’s hero blog “FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single, complete platform” for a complete look at all of our FabCon and SQLCon announcements across both Fabric and our database offerings. Power BI is the decision layer for millions of users because it doesn’t […]
This post first appeared at https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Power-BI-Updates-Blog/Semantic-Layers-The-foundation-of-enterprise-AI/ba-p/5173921. The author is mohaali1If you haven’t already, check out Arun Ulag’s hero blog “FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single, complete platform” for a complete look at all of our FabCon and SQLCon announcements across both Fabric and our database offerings. Power BI Desktop visuals now start with a modern look. This preview introduces […]
This post first appeared at https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Power-BI-Updates-Blog/Deep-Dive-into-Modern-Visual-Defaults-and-Customizing-Theme/ba-p/5173925. The author is DataZoeWelcome to the Power BI March 2026 Feature Summary—and welcome to FabCon! As FabCon gets underway, this month’s update reflects the momentum we’re seeing across Power BI and the conversations happening with customers right now. March brings a thoughtful set of improvements across Copilot, reporting, modeling, and data connectivity—focused on making everyday authoring smoother, visuals […]
This post first appeared at https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Power-BI-Updates-Blog/Power-BI-March-2026-Feature-Summary/ba-p/5173928. The author is kamurrayIf you haven’t already, check out Arun Ulag’s hero blog “FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single, complete platform” for a complete look at all of our FabCon and SQLCon announcements across both Fabric and our database offerings. Power BI Desktop visuals now start with a modern look. This preview introduces […]
This post first appeared at https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deep-dive-into-modern-visual-defaults-and-customizing-theme-improvements-preview/. The author isIf you haven’t already, check out Arun Ulag’s hero blog “FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single, complete platform” for a complete look at all of our FabCon and SQLCon announcements across both Fabric and our database offerings. Power BI is the decision layer for millions of users because it doesn’t […]
This post first appeared at https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/semantic-layers-the-foundation-of-enterprise-ai/. The author isWelcome to the Power BI March 2026 Feature Summary—and welcome to FabCon! As FabCon gets underway, this month’s update reflects the momentum we’re seeing across Power BI and the conversations happening with customers right now. March brings a thoughtful set of improvements across Copilot, reporting, modeling, and data connectivity—focused on making everyday authoring smoother, visuals […]
This post first appeared at https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-march-2026-feature-summary/. The author isPartitioned Compute is a new feature in Fabric Dataflows that allows you to run certain operations inside a Dataflow query in parallel and therefore improve performance. While UI support is limited at the moment it can be used in any Dataflow by adding a single line of fairly simple M code and checking a box […]
This post first appeared at https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2026/03/15/when-can-partitioned-compute-help-improve-fabric-dataflow-performance/. The author is Chris WebbI have been spending a lot of time recently investigating the new performance-related features that have rolled out in Fabric Dataflows over the last few months, so expect a lot of blog posts on this subject in the near future. Probably my favourite of these features is Preview-Only steps: they make such a big difference […]
This post first appeared at https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2026/03/08/a-closer-look-at-preview-only-steps-in-fabric-dataflows/. The author is Chris WebbIf you want to build a reporting solution on SAP (S/4HANA or ECC) or Salesforce data in Fabric and don’t want to build everything from scratch then you should check out Business Process Solutions. It’s a Microsoft-developed solution currently in public preview; the announcement blog post from last year is here and you can find […]
This post first appeared at https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2026/03/01/report-on-sap-and-salesforce-data-in-fabric-with-business-process-solutions/. The author is Chris WebbPreviously known as the “text slicer” while in preview, this visual lets you type or paste values directly into a slicer to filter your report—no scrolling or searching through long lists required. What you can do with the input slicer This post first appeared at https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Power-BI-Updates-Blog/Input-slicer-Filter-reports-and-collect-user-input-Generally/ba-p/5173933. The author is DataZoeRead More
This post first appeared at https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Power-BI-Updates-Blog/Input-slicer-Filter-reports-and-collect-user-input-Generally/ba-p/5173933. The author is DataZoeWelcome to the February Power BI update! Power BI’s February 2026 update is here, and it’s a good one. This release brings smarter Copilot and AI experiences, more flexible ways to interact with reports, polished visuals, and useful modeling enhancements—plus a few important updates to keep in mind. With FabCon right around the corner, it’s […]
This post first appeared at https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Power-BI-Updates-Blog/Power-BI-February-2026-Feature-Summary/ba-p/5173936. The author is kamurrayPreviously known as the “text slicer” while in preview, this visual lets you type or paste values directly into a slicer to filter your report—no scrolling or searching through long lists required. What you can do with the input slicer Report consumers can quickly filter the report to what they are looking for using the […]
This post first appeared at https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/input-slicer-filter-reports-and-collect-user-input-generally-available/. The author isWelcome to the February Power BI update! Power BI’s February 2026 update is here, and it’s a good one. This release brings smarter Copilot and AI experiences, more flexible ways to interact with reports, polished visuals, and useful modeling enhancements—plus a few important updates to keep in mind. With FabCon right around the corner, it’s […]
This post first appeared at https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-february-2026-feature-summary/. The author isThis is going to sound strange, but one of the things I like about tuning Power BI DirectQuery semantic models is that their generally-slower performance and the fact you can see the SQL queries that are generated to get data makes it much easier to understand some of the innermost workings of the Power BI […]
This post first appeared at https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2026/02/22/power-bi-parallelism-and-dependencies-between-sql-queries-in-directquery-mode/. The author is Chris WebbIf you’re performance tuning a Power BI report the most important thing you need to measure – and the thing your users certainly care about most – is how long it takes for a report page to load. Yet this isn’t something that is available anywhere in Power BI Desktop or in the Service (though […]
This post first appeared at https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2026/02/15/measuring-power-bi-report-page-load-times/. The author is Chris WebbExcel and CSV files remain a valid data source for Power BI semantic models and reports. You can use them to create reports in the Power BI service from the Create page or in Power BI Desktop. This blog post is for users who created reports using the old experience to import an Excel or […]
This post first appeared at https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Power-BI-Updates-Blog/Deprecation-of-old-Excel-and-CSV-import-experience-in-Power-BI/ba-p/5173941. The author is msgracegongExcel and CSV files remain a valid data source for Power BI semantic models and reports. You can use them to create reports in the Power BI service from the Create page or in Power BI Desktop. This blog post is for users who created reports using the old experience to import an Excel or […]
This post first appeared at https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deprecation-of-old-excel-and-csv-import-experience-in-power-bi-service/. The author isFor some reason I haven’t had any free copies of books to review recently; maybe the market for tech books has finally collapsed with AI? Books are still being published though and luckily, as someone who once published a book via an O’Reilly imprint, I have a lifetime subscription to O’Reilly online learning which gives […]
This post first appeared at https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2026/02/08/new-books-the-definitive-guide-to-dax-3rd-edition-and-microsoft-power-bi-visual-calculations/. The author is Chris Webb