Continuing my (already very long) series on what information you should be adding to the AI Instructions of your semantic model and why, in this post I’ll show you the benefits of adding the DAX ...

After you publish changes to a Power BI semantic model it can take a few minutes, sometimes up to an hour, for updates to the AI Instructions to be applied. This means if you’re testing Power BI ...

One of the most common questions I hear about Power BI Copilot is how you can stop it from guessing what a user means when they ask an ambiguous question, and instead get it to ask for clarification.

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.

As a Power BI semantic model developer, one of the first things you will learn about is using the Sort By Column property to make sure the values in a column – for example days of the week or months ...

You probably know that semantic models in Power BI can use a fixed amount of memory. This is true of all types of semantic model – Import, Direct Lake and DirectQuery – but it’s not something you ...

Power BI Copilot knows about the relationship between measures and tables, which means that it’s very good at knowing which measures can be broken down by which columns. For example, consider the ...

If you’re working with slow data sources in Power BI/Fabric dataflows then you’re probably aware that validation (for Gen1 dataflows) or publishing (for Gen2 dataflows) them can sometimes take a long ...

After years of meaning to learn how to use Excel Solver, this week I’ve finally made a start: I want to use it to work out the optimal way of distributing workspaces across capacities in a Fabric ...

Query caching is a feature that is available in Premium and Fabric capacities for Import mode semantic models. It allows Power BI to pre-cache the data needed by some report visuals and dashboard ...

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 ...

Now that Fabric Data Agents (what used to be called AI Skills) can use Power BI semantic models as a data source I’ve been spending some time playing around with them, and while I was doing that I ...