Power BI Weekly
Issue #320 - 12th August 2025
A bit of a summer lull this week, even with the delivery of the Power BI August 2025 Feature Summary which doesn't contain a huge amount of updates. The most exciting (IMO) being the Support for org apps in Pro workspaces (Preview), allowing you multiple apps per workspace targeting different end-users, and comprising different combinations of workspace artifacts. As usual, we've also been given some Copilot updates, like Copilot now being available in Embedded Reports for SharePoint Online, and there have been a handful of modeling updates, such as support for Mirrored Azure Databricks catalog for Direct Lake in Power BI Desktop. Elsewhere this week, Marco and Alberto have given us a couple of interesting blogs on the SQLBI channel, discussing Sideways recursion in DAX calculation groups (which I'm sure keeps a lot of you up at night) and sharing some handy SUMMARIZECOLUMNS best practices.
🧩 Data Modeling
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) describes Power BI Copilot, AI Instructions And DAX Measure Definitions
- Avi Singh (@powerbipro) talks about DAX Just Got Easier: Visual Calculations in Power BI
- On the SQLBI blog, Marco Russo & Alberto Ferrari (@marcorus) write about Sideways recursion in DAX calculation groups
- Also on the SQLBI blog, Alberto Ferrari (@FerrariAlberto) describes SUMMARIZECOLUMNS best practices
- On the Power BI community blog, Bhanu Gautam writes about CALCULATE() vs. CALCULATETABLE() in Power BI: Which One Is Better (And Why It Matters)
- Darren Gosbell (@darrengosbell) announces DAX Studio v3.3.2 Release
- Valerie Junk (@porcubi) talks about Inactive Relationships in Power BI
- On the RADACAD blog, Reza Rad (@RADACAD_COM) covers Grouping and Binning; Step Towards Better Data Visualization
- On the Fabric blog, Michaela Isaacs writes about Decoupling Semantic Model for Mirroring Customers
📊 Report Authoring and Interactivity
- On the Power BI blog, Shannon Lindsay (@shan_gsd) announces The Power BI DataViz World Championships are coming to FabCon Vienna
- On the Power BI community blog, Kushan Narasinghe describes how to Show Total When Nothing is Selected in Matrix Table
- Andrzej Leszkiewicz (@avatorl) writes about The total row in a Power BI table: Is it wrong?
- Valerie Junk (@porcubi) describes Format Painter in Power BI
- On the RADACAD blog, Reza Rad (@RADACAD_COM) discusses Bring to Front or Send to Back in Power BI
- On the Power BI Tips YouTube channel, Mike Carlo and Tommy Puglia (@PowerBITips) present Translytical Is So Much More- Ep.447 - Power BI tips
🚀 Deployment, Security and Operations
- On the Access Analytic blog, Wyn Hopkins (@wynhopkins) describes How to Set Up Copilot Capacity in Power BI & Microsoft Fabric
- On the SQL Server Central blog, Pablo Echeverria explains how to Connect Cloud Power BI to on prem SQL Server
🌐 General
- On the Power BI blog, Patrick LeBlanc (@GuyInACube) shares the Power BI August 2025 Feature Summary
- Ignacio Barrau (@ignacho_07) covers Probamos IA para desarrollar en PowerBi [Spanish]