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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, for years I use #LiquidText for reading pdf documents, but I realize that I start using Obsidian/PDF++ more often (see the screenshot below). My question, what are you using to read and annotate technical pdf documents?

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, my friend @datamozart.bsky.social and I will dissect all the Fabric news on our nxt #DataCenturials talk next Wednesday, 7:00 PM CET Join us here: www.youtube.com/live/QLsRjz1...

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Data Centurials #3

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric, I'm happy and proud to share that I consider me being a full #Fabricator now as I have just added the #DP700 certification to the long waiting #DP600 cert😉🕺

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

My Dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, this is my latest article. This one will cover all the ideas I publish on the official Fabric / PowerBI site but will put the ideas in a broader context: publish.obsidian.md/minceddata/B... Please, if you like the ideas, take the time to upvote them 🙏

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Microsoft Fabric ideas - minceddata - Obsidian Publish

This article will list all my current and future ideas I publish on https://ideas.fabric.com The reason is simple: an idea sometimes requests a feature, a feature enhancement, or adapting an existing…

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, my first blog article in 2025 is not related to Fabric 😉 This article is about the Enhanced Refresh API and how this API and Power Automate can help to overcome the semantic model refresh duration limit: publish.obsidian.md/minceddata/B...

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Leveraging the Advanced Refresh API using Power Automate - minceddata - Obsidian Publish

This article is not about Microsoft Fabric; it's about Power BI. In a future article, I will describe a solution using more components from Fabric and explain why, from my point of view, the Fabric-b…

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends as the festive days come to an end, I started working on the slides for my first session in 2025 - it's about Power BI Metrics Sets. Using Excalidraw and the Microsoft Fabric Architecture icons, drawings like the one below become a breeze

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends how is your Sunday going. Mine is working fine, using a notebook to query a REST API, transforming the request result a little, storing the result as a delta table, accessing the semantic model, and visualizing this:

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

my dear #PowerBI friends, my latest article is not about #MicrosoftFabric, it's about #DataVisualization and adding the visual benefits of a pie chart to a bar chart, to finally get rid of some of these pie charts You will find the article here: www.minceddata.info/2023/11/12/t...

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, my new article is about creating a solution that monitors the on-premises data gateways (there will be more items considered in the future). Using #Python, Power BI's REST API, and a Direct Lake dataset: www.minceddata.info/2023/10/16/p... Enjoy reading

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, I'm a little happy that it's raining ... I use a notebook and #sempy (eg #DAX to @pandas_dev data frame) to create a simple #datavisualization using seaborn ... This is amazing! Next stop: learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/fabric...

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, #learning about #azuredevops now will be a valuable asset in the not-so-distant future. You can start your learning here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini...

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, I just synched a Notebook to a DevOps repo. I wish there would be folders, though. And before you ask: No, I'm not bored. It's a public holiday here in Germany and #thewomanilove is conducting a test from her studies

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends currently, there are 107 Tenant settings in the Admin portal, I expect more will pop up in the not-so-distant future. It's never too late to learn how the settings will impact your Fabric Tenant settings

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

my dear #MicrosoftFabric friends, the spark utilities that are available in Fabric notebooks simplify many things, my favorite function though: mssparkutils.credentials.getSecret here you will find the docs: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric...

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

my dear #PowerBI friends, here is one of the rare book reviews I do. But this book is special "Pro Power BI Architecture" (2nd edition) by Reza Rad. www.minceddata.info/2023/09/09/b... I consider it crucial for every Power BI Sherpa!

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Book Review - the 1st aid kit for the Power BI Sherpa

Because this is the third in the last ten years, and I consider this book special, I want to explain why love reading non-fictional books. I’m generation-reading even if I consider creating my own Y...

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Daniel Marsh-Patrick @dm-p.nz · 04/09/2023

#deneb 1.6 for #PowerBI is now in alpha release phase. This is a big set of changes, so anyone who can help test/validate their existing work + new changes will be incredibly valuable :) Overview and details of how you can help can be found on my site: coacervo.co/deneb_alpha_...

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Deneb 1.6 Ready for Alpha Testing

Deneb 1.6 has a lot of new features and improvements, and the alpha builds are available for testing.

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, I'm wondering if you consider the workings of the on-premises gateway still a secret, now that vnet gateway and personal connections are looming? Is a blog article (maybe a series) or even a session helpful?

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, if you want to map your Power BI estate and there are more than two workspaces, this article will help you to overcome timeouts powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/b...

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, this may be a small step for mankind, but it's a giant leap for us Power BI Sherpas: blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/s... Thank you team 👏

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

my dear #PowerBI, #MicrosoftFabric, and #AzureDatabricks friends, we are living in exciting times: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purvie...

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends here is my article about Power BI licensing in the age of Fabric www.minceddata.info/2023/08/19/powe… Enjoy reading

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Kay Sauter @kaysauter.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

Don't forget that CFS for DATA BASH is closing soon! Last date is August 25th! Don't miss it and visit our website databash.live #sqlfamily #azurefamily #pbifamily #fabricfamily

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, today I started collecting some of my answers at the #community site. The collection is here minceddata.notion.site/Community-so…… I will add some older answers as well as new ones. Enjoy

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Koen Verbeeck @koenv.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

New article: What are Capacities in #MicrosoftFabric? www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/7754… > learn more about the F-SKUs and their cost

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, this article is about accessing a remote Azure SQL VM www.minceddata.info/2023/08/12/i-ve…

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Tom Martens @tommartens68.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

there is a lot I love about the image, but the one thing I love the most is the battery, if you are wondering about the memory utilization because I'm doing #PowerBI things on a virtual machine in parallel(s)

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