This has consequences for Power BI Copilot. For example, the prompt: Returns a message saying that Copilot can’t find any ...

Continuing my series of posts on Power BI Copilot and the type of things you should be including in AI Instructions, today I ...

One of the most common errors you'll see when working with Power Query in Power BI or Excel is this: Expression.Error: The key didn't match any rows in the table It can occur with almost any data ...

Continuing my series of posts on Power BI Copilot and the type of things you should be including in AI Instructions, today I want to talk about helping the end user understand the scope of the data: ...

In the last two posts in this series I showed how removing columns from the tables used in a Power Query merge operation can improve refresh performance. In this post I'll show you a different trick ...

There are a lot of articles and blog posts out there on how to handle OAuth2 authentication when connecting to REST APIs from Power Query in Power BI. However there is also a lot of confusion and ...

When you connect to a relational database like SQL Server in Power BI/Power Query/Excel Get & Transform you have two choices about how to get the data you need: You can choose a table from the ...

For any Power BI person, Direct Lake mode is the killer feature of Fabric. Import mode report performance (or near enough) direct on data from the lake, with none of the waiting around for data to ...

Here’s a recording of a session I did for the Manchester (UK) Power BI user group recently on best practices for DirectQuery mode in Power BI: I’ve done it for a few other groups over the last six ...

Thanks Chris, As an old-school MSFT BI developer, I’ll start to believe that Microsoft has put their full weight behind this after we see the update for SSDT-BI-in-VS-2022, and it starts writing my ...

If you're working with large amounts of data in Power BI you may find that you have problems because: Your pbix file is very large You spend a long time waiting for refreshes to finish in Power BI ...

At the end of last year two new, fairly minor, improvements were made to Excel VBA's support for Power Query: you can now refresh and delete individual Power Query queries. These methods are available ...