I then created a Shape Map visual, dragged the Country Name and Electorate measures into it, went to the Map Settings properties and set the Type to “URL” and pasted in the URL of the GeoJSON file ...

There’s so much going on in the Fabric community that it can be hard to keep up with it all. Semantic Link Labs is a great example: in the six months or so since I last had a proper look at it my ...

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 ...

In last week’s post I mentioned that while Power BI reports (unlike Excel PivotTables) do not support the Detail Rows Expression feature, it is possible to partially work around this limitation by ...

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 ...

You probably know that semantic models in Power BI can use a fixed amount of memory. This is true of all types of semantic model – Import, Direct Lake and DirectQuery – but it’s not something you ...

If you have a lot of Power BI semantic models that are scheduled to refresh at the same time in the Service then you may find that some of them fail with the following error: You’ve exceeded the ...

Any serious Power BI developer should have it installed already, but if you have an older version you may need to update it to get the features I talk about in this post. You can generate SQL Server ...

In my last post I talked about how to push Power BI Copilot to get answers from the semantic model rather than the report you’re looking at. If you want to do this you are probably getting worse ...

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 ...