Musings on the world of Microsoft business intelligence (BI).
I’m Will Trickett, a Power BI developer turned data engineer. These are my notes on Power BI, Fabric and Azure.
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My (Honest) Appraisal of Microsoft Fabric
I’ve recently spent a lot of time developing Fabric items (pipelines, notebooks, activators, lakehouses, semantic models, etc.). I’ve also spent a lot of time reading Microsoft’s marketing material and trying to parse…
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Reducing Power BI Semantic Model Size: Benefits and Techniques
Have you ever had a Power BI report that was unnecessarily large and suffered from slow refreshes? Or maybe navigating the Power…
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Understanding and Using the DAX Query View in Power BI Desktop
In the past few months, you might have noticed a new option appear in Power BI Desktop: the DAX Query View. This…
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People > Tools
I’m about to make a claim that isn’t meant to be a blanket statement, just a general rule of thumb. Data careers…
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You Meshing with My Data?
I’ve heard the phrase “data mesh” used for several years now, but I finally decided to do some research after encouragement from…
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Optimizing Costs in Synapse Analytics
I’ve been a bit off the grid. This past January, I transitioned into a new job as a BI Developer at a…
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Semantic Models for Data Translation
Late last week, Microsoft’s Christian Wade made the announcement that “Datasets” are being renamed to “Semantic models” in Microsoft Fabric. Many business…
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Gathering Report Requirements (Simplified)
What is requirement gathering in business intelligence? And how can it be done simply, effectively and efficiently? A Brief Definition I would…
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Exploring the 2023 Power BI Release Plan
Since the introduction of Microsoft Fabric and Copilot in Power BI in May 2023, Microsoft has been hard at work developing and…
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Managing Power BI as an Azure B2B Guest
If you’ve spent any time across the Microsoft suite of tools, you’ll know firsthand the frustration of finding “that setting” you need…
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