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Fabric Data Agents

In a Fabric capacity, you can now create Data Agents with your various data artifacts. This solution allows multiple data sources in Fabric to be combined into a RAG-type area for natural language searches. Within this interface, developers…

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Power BI Desktop Refresh–Refresh just data

Microsoft, in the September release of Power BI Desktop, has added additional ways to start a refresh. You can click the Refresh button in Home ribbon, and now see options for Schema and Data, Schema and Data. If…

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New website for Power BI/Fabric Roadmap

There is a new website for roadmaps related to Power BI and Fabric – Microsoft Fabric Roadmap (Preview) There is even a category section to the left to help with navigation. The right side has a dropdown to drill…

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Analyze Results from Power BI Co-Pilot

Microsoft has added a great feature for Copilot in a deployed Power BI report to visualize the output and get more analysis. First, you would need Build permission on the semantic model plus access to copilot in Power…

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Fabric Service – Persona to Fabric vs Power BI

So, Microsoft made the change. The button in the lower left now let’s you switch between Fabric path versus Power BI path instead of Personas (Data Engineer, Data Science, Power BI, etc.) This is a great change to…

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Power BI Performance Best Practices

The second edition of the only book on Power BI performance, was published in August 2024. It contains lots of info from the first edition, plus changes and new content based in Power BI, Fabric, and external tools…

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Power BI–Gathering the troops

Power BI is… something beyond a reporting tool. It is hard to visualize its scope from seeing a report. First of all, it is a visualization tool not a reporting tool. The reporting part of Power BI is…

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