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What if you could create a complete Dataflow Gen 2 in Microsoft Fabric — with data connections, merge transformations, and a fully built date table — without writing a single line of M code? Not as a theoretical future capability. Right now. Today. In this video, I show you exactly how to do that using Read more about No Code Dataflow Gen 2 in Microsoft Fabric Using GitHub Copilot and Fabric Skills[…]
We had Fabric. Then Real-Time Intelligence. Now Fabric IQ. What comes next? That is the question I most wanted answered when I sat down with Yitzhak Kesselman — Corporate Vice President for Real-Time Intelligence at Microsoft Fabric. Yitzhak leads not only Fabric RTI and Fabric IQ but also the Microsoft observability products within Azure. This Read more about Fabric Real-Time Intelligence & Fabric IQ — A Conversation with Yitzhak Kesselman | Fabric Insider Ep. 6[…]
Documentation is one of those things that every data team knows they should do — and almost nobody does well. You build a Power BI semantic model. You create reports. You set up workspaces, schedules, and refresh jobs. You document none of it because there is no time, no simple way to do it, and Read more about No Code, No Tools: Documentation for Power BI and Fabric Using Fabric Skills and GitHub Copilot[…]
Christian Wade has been in the enterprise BI space longer than most. He was working with semantic models — Analysis Services, VertiPaq — long before Power BI even existed. Today he is Principal Product Manager Architect for Power BI Semantic Models at Microsoft, responsible for the intersection of product strategy, technical architecture, and customer relationships Read more about What’s Hot and New for Power BI Semantic Models in 2026 — A Conversation with Christian Wade | Fabric Insider Ep. 5[…]
Building a multilingual Power BI report has always been one of those requirements that sounded simple but turned out painful to implement. A French-speaking user opens your report and sees English category names. A Spanish-speaking user opens the same report and sees the same English values. You end up either maintaining multiple reports — one Read more about Power BI Multilingual Reports Made Simple with User-Context-Aware Calculated Columns[…]
Fabric Insider Series | Episode 4 | Interview with Santhosh Kumar Ravindran, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering at Microsoft 📺 Watch the full episode on YouTube: Fabric Insider Ep. 4 — Fabric Spark with Santhosh Kumar Ravindran 🎧 Listen on Spotify: Fabric Insider Podcast 📚 Full Fabric Insider Blog Series: radacad.com/category/fabric-insider-2026 🎬 Full Read more about Fabric Spark: Custom Live Pools, Resource Profiles & Performance Fixes — A Conversation with Santhosh Kumar Ravindran | Fabric Insider Ep. 4[…]
What if you could build a complete Power BI semantic model — date table, time intelligence measures, relationships and all — without touching Power BI Desktop at all? Not a future roadmap item. Not a preview feature. Something you can set up today. In this article, I am going to show you exactly how to Read more about No Code Power BI: How to Use Claude and the Power BI Modeling MCP Server[…]
Power Query is one of those tools that has been close to my heart for a very long time. I wrote a full book on it, I have trained thousands of people on it, and I talk about it constantly. So when I get to sit down with the Product Manager behind Power Query and Read more about Power Query, Dataflows, and What’s Next — A Conversation with Miguel Escobar | Fabric Insider Ep. 3[…]
Power BI files come in multiple formats. If you have been working with Power BI Desktop for a while, you probably know the PBIX format well. But there are other formats too: PBIT, PBIP, and PBIR. The last two are more recent additions, and there is also a language called TMDL (Tabular Model Definition Language) Read more about Power BI File Formats Explained: PBIX vs PBIT vs PBIP vs PBIR[…]
Fabric Insider Series | Episode 2 | Interview with Zoe Douglas, Feature PM at Microsoft If you have been following Power BI for a while, you know that visualization has always been the area most visible to end-users — yet it has also been the area where some long-standing pain points have lived the longest. Read more about The Updates and Future of Visualization in Power BI — Interview with Zoe Douglas | Fabric Insider Ep. 2[…]