Power BI Weekly
Issue #332 - 4th November 2025
Another short edition this week, with just a couple of official announcements - Preparing for the General Availability of the new Card visual, highlighting the main improvements to the new Card visual including rendering improvements, enhanced image support and expanded styling controls. We've also been told about the On-premises data gateway October 2025 release, which brings the compatibility in line with the latest version of Power BI Desktop.
Elsewhere this week, Gilbert Quevauvilliers has continued the series on Power BI load testing with the article Automating Load Testing Setting Up Your Fabric Lakehouse and Notebooks – Part 2. Meagan Longoria has described how to Check Power BI report interactions with Semantic Link Labs, and Chris Webb has written about Monitoring The DAX Queries Generated When The Power BI Copilot Index Is Built.
🛠️ Data Prep
- Dane Belarmino describes How to Scrape Earthquake Data from PhiVolcs Using Power Query Part 1 (Taglish)
- Shivanshu Bisht shares his findings about Dataflow gen 1 vs Dataflow gen 2 in Fabric
🧩 Data Modeling
- On the Power BI community blog, Jen Beiser (@jenetzler) covers Optimizing Semantic Models for Copilot: Best Practices and Why They Matter
- Phil Seamark (@PhilSeamark) describes How to Generate a DAXX File for Performance Tuning
- On the RADACAD YouTube channel, Reza Rad (@RADACAD_COM) describes Fiscal Calendar YTD DAX Calculation in Power BI
- On the Power BI community blog, Kamalu Victor shares Interactive DAX Exercises Trainer – Track Progress & Learn DAX (with a Nerdy Twist)
- Reid Havens (@HavensBI) talks about Power BI Calendar Overhaul: Calendar-Based Time Intelligence (with Jeroen [Jay] ter Heerdt)
- Avi Singh (@powerbipro) talks about Too Many Pages in Your Power BI Report? Try Thin Report Architecture
📊 Report Authoring and Interactivity
- On the Power BI blog, Jacinda Eng (@MSPowerBI) announces Preparing for the General Availability of the new Card visual
- On the Select Distinct blog, Elle Harrison describes How to Disable Auto Column Width in Power BI
🚀 Deployment, Security and Operations
- Meagan Longoria (@mmarie) describes how to Check Power BI report interactions with Semantic Link Labs
- Gilbert Quevauvilliers (@GilbertQue) describes Automating Load Testing Setting Up Your Fabric Lakehouse and Notebooks – Part 2
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) writes about Monitoring The DAX Queries Generated When The Power BI Copilot Index Is Built
- On the Fabric blog, Leo Li announces On-premises data gateway October 2025 release
🌐 General
- On the Power BI Tips YouTube channel, Mike Carlo and Tommy Puglia (@PowerBITips) present Getting Started with Real Time Intelligence - Ep.472 - Power BI tips