Power BI Weekly
Issue #337 - 9th December 2025
It's a small edition this week, with only a couple of announcements on the official blog. There's one that's not really related to Power BI, but probably relevant to your wider data platforms: Assessing Your Azure Data Factory for Migration to Fabric Data Factory, a handy tool to help you assess whether you're ready to migrate your ADF workloads to Fabric based on the activities and functionality you use. The other announcement is that Drillthrough in Excel now supported for Direct Lake and DirectQuery Models, removing a limitation I'm sure many of you will now benefit from! Elsewhere this week, Chris Webb has shared information given by Celia Bayliss, describing how to Stop Power BI Copilot From Answering Questions From Report Visuals in certain scenarios where that is desired, Reid Havens has shared Two Simple Power BI Table Hacks: Invisible Tooltips and Zero-Width Labels, and Zoe Douglas has written about Deployment pipelines and Power BI semantic models with Direct Lake on OneLake tables and shared some information on how to get round some of the current limitations.
🧩 Data Modeling
- On the SQLBI blog, Alberto Ferrari (@FerrariAlberto) delves into Using RANK instead of RANKX in DAX
- Avi Singh (@powerbipro) discusses Power BI Copilot vs ChatGPT: Who Writes DAX Better?
- On the Excel Basement YouTube channel, Rahim Zulfiqar Ali (@rahimzulfiqar) explains how to Build Power BI Project with Power BI MCP Server | AI Data Modeling & Dashboard with Explicit Measures [Hindi]
- Andrzej Leszkiewicz (@avatorl) describes Top N + Others Without Any Changes in the Data Model
📊 Report Authoring and Interactivity
- Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) covers Stopping Power BI Copilot From Answering Questions From Report Visuals
- Reid Havens (@HavensBI) talks about Two Simple Power BI Table Hacks: Invisible Tooltips and Zero-Width Labels
- On the Learning Science YouTube channel, Learning Science (@learn_scitech) describes How to Fully Auto-Resize Matrix & Table Visual Columns
- Valerie Junk (@porcubi) shares a Power BI Theme Test File and talks about a Lollypop Visual in Power BI
- On the Microsoft Fabric Café YouTube channel, Mehrdad Abdollahi presents FabricCoffee with Juliana Smith - Developing WCAG-Compliant Power BI Reports
- Christian Borovac (@ChristianBoro07) highlights the meetup session on Visual calculations in Power BI (by Daniel Marsh-Patrick)
- Rob Collie (@robcolli3) talks about The Power BI Fundamentals Behind Expert Development *and* AI Simplicity, w/ Microsoft's Rui Romano
🚀 Deployment, Security and Operations
- On the Power BI blog, Kay Unkroth (@MSPowerBI) highlights that Drillthrough in Excel now supported for Direct Lake and DirectQuery Models
- Zoe Douglas (@MSPowerBI) describes Deployment pipelines and Power BI semantic models with Direct Lake on OneLake tables