Power BI Weekly
Issue #261 - 4th June 2024
I'll quickly mention the updates this week: we've been told that the general availability of Copilot for Power BI is rolling out starting today, and we've also been given the Power BI Report Server May 2024 Feature Summary. An non-Microsoft update this week is the Release of Power BI Studio v2.0 (VSCode extension) by Gerhard Brueckl, which includes some awesome new bits of functionality like the integration with External Tools and a new Memory Statistics notebook for Semantic Models. Another new resource this week has been shared by Paul Turley, who's put together a Microsoft Fabric Roadmap & Feature Status Report to help us keep on top of the status of the upcoming features in Fabric. Finally, aside from updates this week, a couple of incremental refresh bits of content: Mark Endicott has presented at the Manchester Power BI user group talking about Advanced Incremental refresh in Power BI, and Marc Lelijveld has shown how to Dynamically refresh (historical) partitions in Power BI Incremental Refresh Semantic Models using Fabric Semantic Link.
🛠️ Data Prep
- Reid Havens (@HavensBI) talks about Maintaining Query Folding when Merging with Different Data Types
- Rick de Groot (@Rickmaurinus) talks about Introducing Power Query How (Master the M language)
- On the Select Distinct blog, David Laws (@SelectDistLtd) writes about Optimal Data Import Methods in Power BI
🧩 Data Modeling
- On the Power BI community blog, Dragon Chou writes about Fuzzy queries by using DAX codes
- Andrzej Leszkiewicz (@avatorl) writes about In Power BI, Normalizing a Dimension is (Not) Crucial for Usability and Performance
- Chandeep Chhabra (@chandeep2786) talks about Actual v/s Rolling Budget in Power BI
- Roland Szirmai (@BILAnalytics) writes about No More Manual Date Changes in Power BI | Learn How to Create Dynamic Timeframe Information
📊 Report Authoring and Interactivity
- On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science describes How to enable & disable data label dynamically for Power BI visuals
- Bas Dohmen (@HowToPowerBI) talks about the New Card & Reference Labels in Power BI
- On the Power BI community blog, Daisy Yang describes Tips on adjusting the scaling of visual objects on maps
- Shahab Hoghooghi (@ShahabHoghooghi) talks about Mastering the Basics: Power BI Dashboard Design Fundamentals (Persian)
🚀 Deployment, Security and Operations
- Marc Lelijveld (@MarcLelijveld) writes about Dynamically refreshing (historical) partitions in Power BI Incremental Refresh Semantic Models using Fabric Semantic Link
- Mark Endicott talks about Advanced Incremental refresh in Power BI
- Gerhard Brueckl (@gbrueckl) announces Release of Power BI Studio v2.0 (VSCode extension)
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) discusses Power BI Semantic Model Memory Errors, Part 3: The Command Memory Limit
- Ignacio Barrau (@ignacho_07) covers [SimplePBI] Importar archivo de PowerBi de Github o Azure DevOps [Spanish]
🌐 General
- On the Power BI blog, Lada Hill highlights that The general availability of Copilot for Power BI is rolling out starting today
- Also on the Power BI blog, Nirupama Srinivasan (@MSPowerBI) announces Power BI Report Server May 2024 Feature Summary
- Adam Saxton (@GuyInACube) explains how to Install Power BI Desktop the Right Way (2024)
- Paul Turley (@paul_turley) provides Microsoft Fabric Roadmap & Feature Status Report