Power BI Weekly

Issue #313 - 24th June 2025

No technical updates this week, but Microsoft has found out that it has (yet again) been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and BI Platforms, and again being the data point furthest to the top-right of the chart. Very impressive stuff, and one to show your stakeholders if you ever need to justify the use of Power BI. Onto the highlighted articles in what is a very short edition: Bibiano Geraldo Mangue has taken us click-by-click through How to Display Power BI Reports in a Continuous Slideshow with Live Data, Justin Martin has shown how to use Workspace Monitoring alongside a KQL query to Identify Semantic Model Capacity Spikes, giving details of the user and DAX queries responsible for bad performance, and, lastly, Meagan Longoria has described how to Get Power BI Report Viewing History using Semantic Link Labs. Remember that Semantic Link (+ Labs) is not just to do with Semantic Modelling - it's scope is much, much broader!

🛠️ Data Prep

🧩 Data Modeling

📊 Report Authoring and Interactivity

🌐 General