I published the semantic model from my last post (which has four text columns CustomerId and CustomerName from the Customers table, CustomerId and TransactionId from the Orders table, none of which ...

There are a couple of flaws in the design of this semantic model that either individually or combined cause that warning message to appear. Remember that it only appears when Copilot thinks it needs ...

What does it mean? What causes it? What can you do to avoid it? Let’s find out. In order to answer your questions better Power BI Copilot creates an index of the values in all the text columns in your ...

In my last post I talked about the text index that Power BI Copilot builds to help it answer data questions. You might be wondering if you can monitor the index build process and the bad news is that ...

One of the most common errors you’ll see when working with Power Query in Power BI or Excel is this: It can occur with almost any data source and in a wide variety of different circumstances, and for ...

One of the most confusing, under-documented and widely-misunderstood features of Power BI and Power Query (or Excel “Get & Transform” or whatever you want to call it) are the data privacy settings. I ...

I don’t usually like to blog about topics that I think other people have blogged about already, but despite the fact that Mosha blogged about this several years ago (in fact more than eight years ago, ...

There’s a new M function rolling out now that allows you to read metadata from Delta tables (at the time of writing it’s available in Dataflows Gen2 and will be available soon in Desktop). It builds ...

You probably know that dimensional modelling and building a star schema are very important in Power BI. In a star schema you’ll have at least one fact table, and in your fact table you’ll have two ...

Power BI Premium has supported metadata translations – translations for table, column and measure names etc – for a while now. Kasper has a great blog showing how to use this feature here; Tabular ...