Power BI Weekly

Issue #251 - 26th March 2024

Move aside SQLBits, it's FabCon week this week, and there have already been some huge announcements on the Fabric side to sink your teeth into. Grab a drink and take a read of Arun's all-encompassing blog here: Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference to get an overview of all the new and updated features. A few of the bigger ones being that Mirroring is supported in Public Preview (for Cosmos DB, Azure SQL DB and Snowflake), you can now access on-premises data using the on-premises Data Gateway in Data Factory pipelines, and you can have Folders in the Workspace View! More specifically to Power BI, we've also been given the Power BI March 2024 Feature Summary, which mainly comprises a handful of incremental improvements/updates to existing features.

Elsewhere this week, Patrick Leblanc has shared a video about Decoding Direct Lake: The Truth Behind DirectQuery Fallback, Paul Turley has written a great blog around Moving from Power BI to Microsoft Fabric, and Erik Svensen has shown a clever way to Combine visual calculations and numeric parameters to create a dynamic moving average period.

Finally, Barry has written a great blog reflecting on SQLbits 2024 - The Best Bits (whereby I'm only now realising just how many photos the man takes). All in all, it was a wonderful conference, wonderfully run with wonderful people. Hope to see you there next year!