Category: Power BI from Rookie to Rockstar

Power BI Multilingual Reports Made Simple with User-Context-Aware Calculated Columns

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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[…]

No Code Power BI: How to Use Claude and the Power BI Modeling MCP Server

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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, Dataflows, and What’s Next — A Conversation with Miguel Escobar | Fabric Insider Ep. 3

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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 File Formats Explained: PBIX vs PBIT vs PBIP vs PBIR

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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[…]

The Updates and Future of Visualization in Power BI — Interview with Zoe Douglas | Fabric Insider Ep. 2

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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[…]

Common Mistakes When Sharing Power BI Reports from Workspace

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Sharing a Power BI report sounds like it should be simple. You build the report, you publish it to a workspace, and then you give your end users access. Done, right? Well, that is exactly where most organizations get it wrong. The way many teams give access to their business users is one of the Read more about Common Mistakes When Sharing Power BI Reports from Workspace[…]

Power Platform Dataflows instead of Power BI Dataflow Gen1

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Power Platform Dataflow: A Practical Replacement for Power BI Dataflow Gen1 Microsoft has announced that Power BI Dataflow Gen1 (analytical dataflow) is being retired. If your organization is not ready to move to Microsoft Fabric — whether due to budget constraints or strategic timing — you still have a solid option: Power Platform Dataflow, also Read more about Power Platform Dataflows instead of Power BI Dataflow Gen1[…]

Different Versions of Dataflow in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric

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If you have worked with Power BI for a while, you have probably heard the word “dataflow.” But here is the thing — when people say “dataflow,” they might mean three completely different things: Dataflow Gen 1, Dataflow Gen 2, and Dataflow Gen 2 CI/CD. Each version has its own licensing requirements, destination options, and Read more about Different Versions of Dataflow in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric[…]

Live Connection; When Power BI comes Hybrid

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Live Connection is another type of connection in Power BI. This type of connection is somehow similar to DirectQuery because it won’t store data in memory. However, it is different from DirectQuery, because it will give you the analytical engine of SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular. With this method, you get benefits of both worlds; Read more about Live Connection; When Power BI comes Hybrid[…]

Dashboard vs Report; Differences At a Glance – Power BI

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This question is one of the main questions that people ask when they are at the preliminary stages of building a Power BI solutions. There is a misconception that Report is a detailed tabular report, and dashboard is interactive visualizations with chart. However this definition isn’t what Power BI reports and dashboards stands for. There Read more about Dashboard vs Report; Differences At a Glance – Power BI[…]