In yet another entry in my series on what you should be doing in Power BI Copilot AI Instructions, in this post I want to ...

A blog about Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, SQL Server Analysis Services (Multidimensional and Tabular), MDX, DAX, Power Pivot, Power Query and Excel for BI ...

One of the most common errors you’ll see when working with Power Query in Power BI or Excel is this: Expression.Error: The key didn’t match any rows in the table It can occur with almos… ...

There are a lot of articles and blog posts out there on how to handle OAuth2 authentication when connecting to REST APIs from Power Query in Power BI. However there is also a lot of confusion and ...

If you missed out on the big announcement last week about Tabular Model Definition Language and the future of Power BI version control at SQLBits last week, then the recording of the session has al… ...

[Update September 2023: now that Power BI is part of Microsoft Fabric, the new features of Fabric make it much easier to solve this problem as described here] Power BI incremental refresh is a very ...

Here’s a recording of a session I did for the Manchester (UK) Power BI user group recently on best practices for DirectQuery mode in Power BI: I’ve done it for a few other groups over the last six ...

When you connect to a relational database like SQL Server in Power BI/Power Query/Excel Get & Transform you have two choices about how to get the data you need: You can choose a table from the ...

In part 1 of this series I showed how you could create a very simple custom connector for Power Automate that allows you to call the Power BI Enhanced Refresh API. However, I didn’t show what I think ...

In the last two posts in this series I showed how removing columns from the tables used in a Power Query merge operation can improve refresh performance. In this post I’ll show you a different trick ...

If you’ve heard about the new Direct Lake mode for Power BI datasets in Fabric you’ll know that it gives you the query performance of Import mode (well, almost) without the need to actually import any ...