Fabric's new migration wizard is probably the easiest way to move your Dataflow Gen1s over to Gen2. Teemu's warning before you click it: the previously exist...

Quick poll for the whole panel: are you using Copy job in your environment? Heini: not yet, everything is built with the regular copy activity. Oskari: not f...

Now that I’ve put SQL Database in Fabric to work on real projects, here’s my take on what it costs, how it performs, and where it makes the most sense — compared to Azure SQL Database and SQL Serve…

Two minutes of database activity can mean 17 minutes of compute billing. And a CPU chart doesn't tell the whole story. Let's work through SQL database in Fabric billing with examples from application workloads, development databases, and everyday troubleshooting.

Here is something I did on purpose in this demo. I added one extra thing to the review agent's instructions, a rule about pipeline concurrency, and I deliber...

This is the part people argue about, so here is exactly how I run it. Some things were explicitly denied for the developer agent. It was not allowed to push ...

Fabric licensing isn’t one decision, it’s two — and mixing them up is how budgets get blown. Here’s how per-user Power BI Pro and Premium Per User differ from Fabric’s capac…

Quick poll for the panel: is anybody using workspace monitoring in Fabric? Heini: they tested it in one scenario, but it does not scale, because having works...

Introduction: The Double-Edged Sword of Fabric Flexibility Microsoft Fabric has fundamentally revolutionized how enterprise data teams operate. By unifying data engineering, data science, data warehousing and Power BI into a single Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, it breaks down silos and lets business users move at lightning speed. However, this democratization of data comes with a massive

Fabric IQ is confusing a lot of people, so I asked Roey Zalta to explain it. Microsoft has what he calls the IQ family: different products dedicated to diffe...

Making Data AI-Ready, Part 1 (This is the first article in a three-part series on making data AI-ready. Part 1 explains what AI-ready data actually means, Part 2 looks...

Everyone is trying to make their AI agents smarter. I went the other way. When you are dealing with LLMs, things can get a little bit unpredictable, so I lim...

Learn how to use the Fabric Core MCP server with GitHub Copilot to scan, create, and manage OneLake security roles in Microsoft Fabric with AI.

Learn how to set up OneLake security in Microsoft Fabric so row level security flows automatically from lakehouse to semantic model to report.

Bringing your own encryption keys sounds like the more secure option. Vesa Tikkanen and Heini Ilmarinen make a point that surprises people: if they are not p...

Kay Unkroth joins Fabric Insider Ep 13 to explain DAX UDFs going GA, the new Arrow REST API for DAX queries, and Outbound Access Protection.

Before I get started, yes, I’m going to write about Power BI. If you’re not familiar with my work, the long and short of it is that I tend to keep a healthy distance from anything invol…

Do this by analysing downstream reports and from queries logged in Workspace Monitoring

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Fabric's lakehouse table health check tells you when a Delta table needs maintenance. Vesa Tikkanen went digging: there is a column that basically says "does...

Josh Caplan, Director of Product for OneLake, joins Fabric Insider Ep 12 to talk security, shortcuts vs mirroring, storage tiers, and the OneLake MCP server.

#PBIBRUM October meetup with Victor Rivas & Jerome Wittersheim Join us at the Robert Walters offices for the #PBIBRUM October meetup! Agenda: **17:45** \- Doors open **

Our Lead Co-Org Alex and our sponsors Robert Walters (Barcelona team) will be hosting a networking drinks event near the [Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona (

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We're excited to be back after a break for the summer to welcome Erik Svensen presenting a Power BI session on Visual Calculations: **Visual Calculations in Power BI** Vi

Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be in a warehouse, the rules may be buried in PDF files, and the explanation may...

Taking the Ask, Plan, Human in the Loop and Agent workflow out of the diagrams and into a real project: building an AdventureWorks-style Microsoft Fabric App with GitHub Copilot in about four and a half hours, without being an application developer.

Roey Zalta built an ontology for an imaginary company with something he calls a company brain. His encouragement: go research how companies can interact when...

Who is the Fabric ontology actually for? Roey Zalta puts it plainly: it sits on top of the semantic layer, and its main purpose is not for humans. The purpos...

How do I download a Power BI layout as a PBIR file from the gallery?

In this conversation, I sit down with Rob Collie, former Microsoft employee, one of the early people behind Power Pivot, founder of P3 Adaptive and author of Fair Game, to talk about how AI is changing the world of Power BI, data analytics, business intelligence and data careers.

Let’s talk about matrix totals in this episode of The Whiteboard! Special guest: the SQLBI Whiteboard! Learn abstract DAX concepts in a more interacti

Learn how to build a custom skill file that teaches Claude your Power BI development standards, naming conventions, measure tables, and display folders, so the same prompt produces results that follow your exact conventions automatically, while optimizing token usage.

Shortcut tables in Eventhouse now automatically synchronize schema changes: new columns, changed data types, renamed columns, deleted columns, all propagated...

A white paper to help you decide which storage mode will give you the best performance

In almost a decade of building Power BI reports, a common blind spot I still see from colleagues regards data point limits in core visuals — largely unnoticed until someone maps their data and finds entire regions are missing. Compare the following lasagne plot created using a Power BI core visual scatterplot with one created… Continue reading A matter of scatter

A DAX calculation can produce convincing values at the detail level and still fail at the total. The problem is often not the total itself: the business rul