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Have you ever thought about using Microsoft Fabric Apps for something other than building a traditional business application? What if you already have all your relationships, measures and business logic inside a Power BI semantic model? Do we really need to create another database for the application?

Connections are now easier to manage

**MCPS, Skills and Plugins** ... what are these? and why do they matter? AI assistants can already write DAX and explain your model, but the real shift is when they can ac

**Calling all Power BI & Fabric Data enthusiasts** We've been invited back to run a special User Group event at **Data Decoded 2026 conference** at **Manchester Central**

#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 (

**Join us for September's PBIMCR meet-up** When: **Thursday 24th of September 2026** Time: arrive for 5:30pm with talks starting from **6pm start** prompt Address: **Canop

**There’s never been a better time to have a problem: Agentic development in business intelligence** AI can help you build semantic models, reports, and end-to-end data pr

Where should your pipeline configuration live, in tables or in files? I put that question to Teemu Multanen while we were building a scalable bronze layer. H...

Why would Microsoft Fabric be better than Databricks? Two reasons. First, Fabric is far more approachable. Databricks is a great platform, but it is built fo...

I still have a little PTSD from my Databricks days. After a runtime upgrade, one Spark function doing array parsing started to behave differently. The notebo...

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 (

**Join us for September's PBIMCR meet-up** When: **Thursday 24th of September 2026** Time: arrive for 5:30pm with talks starting from **6pm start** prompt Address: **Canop

When: **Thursday 17th September 2026** Time: arrive for **5:45pm** with talks starting from **6pm start** prompt. Location: **Ecosurety, 2nd Floor, 4 Colston Ave, Bristol B