Power BI Weekly

Issue #314 - 1st July 2025

A couple of official updates this week – Microsoft have announced a series of special events, learning opportunities and contests to Celebrate as Power BI Turns 10. We've also been told there are now Expanded entry points, access options, and functionality in Explore, which means the Explore feature is now available by default to users with view permissions, allowing more business users to perform ad hoc analysis on their data. The update also makes Explore more powerful: you can now launch it from both report visuals and Copilot generated visuals, and create visual calculations within your Explore analysis.

Now onto this week's highlighted content, Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen has taken us through how to Become a Guardian of the Star Schema, helping us create create clean, high performance data models. Valerie Junk has shown how to use numeric range parameters for What if analysis in Power BI, Jon Stjernegaard Vöge has written an article Exploring User Input Options for Translytical Task Flows (Write-back in Fabric & Power BI). And finally, Carmel Eve has published a short talk: What is a Data Lakehouse?

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