Tag: Microsoft Fabric

DAX UDFs, Arrow REST API, and Outbound Access Protection: A Conversation with Kay Unkroth (Fabric Insider Ep. 13)

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DAX UDFs just went GA, there’s a new REST API for running DAX queries at scale, and a network security feature most people haven’t even heard of yet is quietly changing how enterprises govern their semantic models. In this episode of Fabric Insider, I sit down with Kay Unkroth, Program Manager on the Power BI Read more about DAX UDFs, Arrow REST API, and Outbound Access Protection: A Conversation with Kay Unkroth (Fabric Insider Ep. 13)[…]

OneLake Security: Setting Up Row Level Security From Lakehouse to Report

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If you’ve set up row level security in Power BI before, you know the usual drill: open the semantic model, add a role, write a DAX filter. But once your data lives inside a Microsoft Fabric OneLake structure, there’s a better way to do this. You can implement it directly in OneLake instead, so that Read more about OneLake Security: Setting Up Row Level Security From Lakehouse to Report[…]

OneLake Updates: A Conversation with Josh Caplan (Fabric Insider Ep 12)

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In this episode of Fabric Insider, I sat down with Josh Caplan, Director of Product for OneLake at Microsoft. Josh has been around this product family for a long time, starting as an intern on the Analysis Services team back in 2007, working on Project Gemini (which became Power Pivot), and joining the Power BI Read more about OneLake Updates: A Conversation with Josh Caplan (Fabric Insider Ep 12)[…]

Teach Claude Your Power BI Standards, Custom Skills for the Power BI Modeling MCP Server

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Can you teach Claude, or any LLM, to follow your standards and your guidelines, so that when it connects to a Power BI model, when it wants to build a semantic model or a report, it does it exactly as you do, following all the instructions that you would normally provide? Yes, it is possible. Read more about Teach Claude Your Power BI Standards, Custom Skills for the Power BI Modeling MCP Server[…]

Fabric Apps & Rayfin Deep Dive: A Conversation with Sachin Patney | Fabric Insider Ep. 11

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I have written and recorded about Rayfin before, what it is, how the Data App template works, and the cost story that makes it genuinely significant. But this conversation goes much deeper. I sat down with Sachin Patney, who leads Fabric App Development at Microsoft, and by extension the team that builds Rayfin, for a Read more about Fabric Apps & Rayfin Deep Dive: A Conversation with Sachin Patney | Fabric Insider Ep. 11[…]

Rayfin Data App — The Future of Power BI Reporting

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You can build an application whose frontend is TypeScript and ReactJS, and whose backend is a Power BI semantic model — meaning you get a fully interactive, visualized report inside your application without it being a Power BI report at all. Project Rayfin makes this possible. And it is going to change the way we Read more about Rayfin Data App — The Future of Power BI Reporting[…]

Data Integration, Migration & the Future of ETL in Microsoft Fabric — A Conversation with Wee Hyong Tok | Fabric Insider Ep. 9

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Is ETL as we know it coming to an end? What is the real migration path from ADF, Synapse, or SSIS to Microsoft Fabric? And what does AI mean for the future of the ETL developer’s career? I sat down with Wee Hyong Tok — Partner Director of Product Management for Data Integration at Microsoft, Read more about Data Integration, Migration & the Future of ETL in Microsoft Fabric — A Conversation with Wee Hyong Tok | Fabric Insider Ep. 9[…]

Fabric MCP Servers, CLI & AI Agents — A Conversation with Hasan Abo-Shally | Fabric Insider Ep. 8

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Everyone is talking about MCP Servers. But most people still cannot clearly explain what one actually is, why it matters for Fabric, or how it differs from the APIs and skills they already use. In this episode of Fabric Insider, I sat down with Hasan Abo-Shally — Product Manager for Fabric MCP Servers and CLI Read more about Fabric MCP Servers, CLI & AI Agents — A Conversation with Hasan Abo-Shally | Fabric Insider Ep. 8[…]

What Is Fabric App or Rayfin and Why You Should Care

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Imagine an application built entirely inside the Microsoft Fabric environment. Not an application that connects to Fabric. Not an application that reads from a Fabric data source. An application where the database is a Fabric SQL database, the semantic model is a Power BI semantic model, and the frontend is hosted and managed inside Fabric Read more about What Is Fabric App or Rayfin and Why You Should Care[…]

No Code Dataflow Gen 2 in Microsoft Fabric Using GitHub Copilot and Fabric Skills

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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[…]