There are a couple of flaws in the design of this semantic model that either individually or combined cause that warning message to appear. Remember that it only appears when Copilot thinks it needs ...

Not only do you get all the ETL to extract cost data from Azure and Power BI reports you need but there’s also a Fabric Data Agent so you can query your data in natural language! Aren’t Fabric costs ...

Following on from my blog post a few months ago about cool stuff in the Fabric Toolbox, there is now another really useful solution available there that anyone with Fabric capacities should check out: ...

One of the most common errors you’ll see when working with Power Query in Power BI or Excel is this: It can occur with almost any data source and in a wide variety of different circumstances, and for ...

One very common requirement when creating a Power BI report is the ability to apply a filter for the current day, week, month, quarter or year. There are several ways of implementing this: you could ...

There are a lot of really cool free, community-developed tools and resources out there for Power BI and Fabric – so many that it’s easy to miss announcements about them. In this post I thought I’d ...

In my recent post on web services in Power Query I mentioned that while the Power Query Web.Contents() function generates a GET request by default, you can make it generate a POST request by ...

Recently I had a request for help from someone who wanted to do the following in Power Query: take a piece of text and then, using a table, search for all of the occurrences of the words in one column ...

When using the Web.Contents function to call a web service in Power Query in either Power BI or Excel you may encounter the following error: DataFormat.Error: Block length does not match with its ...

If you’ve heard about the new Direct Lake mode for Power BI datasets in Fabric you’ll know that it gives you the query performance of Import mode (well, almost) without the need to actually import any ...