Power BI Weekly

Issue #270 - 6th August 2024

After the lull in announcements, this week they're back with a bang. First of all, we've been told about the general availability of Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL) - a huge milestone for programmatic data model authoring, and one that has been many years in the making. Well done to all those involved in making this happen. Sticking to the data modeling theme, we've been given a Deep dive into DAX query view for web - that's right, "for web". You can now write DAX queries in an editor in the Power BI Service, which is very cool! Although let's not forget about the tools that have helped us get where we are today - Darren Gosbell has shared the DAX Studio v3.1.0 Release with a number of new features, fixes and improvements. Outside of DAX/modeling, we've been told about the new (preview) paginated report authoring experience, again, directly in the Power BI Service. Nice work!

On the community articles this week, I must start by issuing a correction on last week's editorial, where I attributed the Monitoring Power BI Semantics Models over time article to Madison Giammaria instead of Romain Casteres, who actual wrote the article (thanks Madison for pointing that out). In fact, Romain is back again this week with another article about Generating a Date Dimension Table for Direct Lake Model in Microsoft Fabric - a great script to have at your disposal if you're generating your star schema using Python. Elsewhere this week, Bernat Agulló Roselló is back with the start of a fascinating in-depth series about "Transforming a regular report into a bilingual one", writing Part 1: Extracting Titles, Subtitles, and Textboxes and Part 2: Extracting Display Names of Measures and Field Parameters, and Teo Lachev has written an interesting article sharing his thoughts on Power BI and Fabric Capacities: Thinking Outside the Box.