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 ...

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 ...

One very common requirement when creating a Power BI report is the ability to apply a filter for the current day, week, month, quarter or year. There are several ways of implementing this: you could ...

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 ...

If you missed out on the big announcement last week about Tabular Model Definition Language and the future of Power BI version control at SQLBits last week, then the recording of the session has ...

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, ...

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 ...

Recently I had a request for help from someone who wanted to do the following in Power Query: take a piece of text and then, using a table, search for all of the occurrences of the words in one column ...

There’s a new M function in Power Query in Power BI that allows you to read the data from a Parquet file: Parquet.Metadata. It’s not documented yet and it’s currently marked as “intended for internal ...