Power BI MCP Tuner Server and does it reduce capacity requirements – Part 4
This blog post is about using MCP to tune DAX and then using the Automated Load Testing does it reduce capacity. I originally did not plan for this post but after viewing the details from Justin Martin – DAX Performance Tuner | LinkedIn I had to give it a go. It was then easy for me to test if the…
Running and viewing Automated Load Testing Results – Part 3
This blog post is going to detail how I run the load test and then view the load testing results to determine how the capacity has coped when I increase the number of users. Along with demonstrating how I automated the load testing without having to run it manually! Please find below the previous series in case. This is the…
Automating Load Testing Setting Up Your Fabric Lakehouse and Notebooks – Part 2
In today’s blog post I am going to show you how to set up the Lakehouse and Fabric notebooks so that you can then configure it to be ready to be used with the JSON file we created in the previous blog post. Series Details Part 1: Capturing Real Queries with Performance Analyzer Part 2 (This blog post): Setting Up…
Automating Power BI Load Testing with Fabric Notebooks – Part 1: Capturing Real Queries
Load testing is essential when working with Microsoft Fabric capacity. With limited resources, deploying a Power BI report without testing can lead to performance issues, downtime, and frustrated users. In this series, I’ll show you how to automate load testing using Fabric Notebooks, making the process faster, easier, and repeatable. Inspired by Phil Seamark’s approach, this method eliminates manual complexity…
How to quickly find rows with errors in Power Query when using Power BI
In the past when there has been an error when loading data into the semantic model, there can be times when clicking on the View errors can either take a very long time to show those errors. Or in some cases it never shows you the error. In this blog post I am going to show you an alternative way…
Fabulous Fabcon Vienna 2025
In this blog post I will be covering the Fabcon Vienna updates. Apologies for the misspelling of the word “Announcements” I had recorded the video and was too lazy to re-record! Below are the slides that I presented in my video along with the links, which could be useful if you want more information. CI/CD 100% Support Fabric Command…
Power BI using TMDL with GitHub Copilot Chat to automate changes for the Dynamic Format String
In the video below I will show you how I used GitHub Copilot Chat to make changes to the Power BI TMDL to find and make changes to the Dynamic Format String. As mentioned in the video this video had almost no planning as I wanted to show you what it is like if you were working with me and…
Comparing Fabric Capacity Consumption – Notebook vs Warehouse SQL
I saw that there was an update where it is now possible to use the Microsoft Fabric Warehouse to copy data directly from OneLake into the Warehouse. This got me thinking, which would consume more capacity to get the data into the Warehouse table. As well as which one would be faster. To do this I am going to be…
How to use the Tabular Object Model using Semantic Link Labs in a Microsoft Fabric Notebook
In this blog post I am going to show you how to use the powerful Semantic Link Labs library for Tabular Object Model (TOM) for semantic model manipulation. The goal of this blog post is to give you an understanding of how to connect using TOM, then based on the documentation use one of the functions. Don’t get me wrong…
Download any Power BI Report from the Power BI Service
I am sure we have all had it where there is Power BI report in the service which has been working for a long time. Then there is a requirement to make a change, and NO ONE can find the original PBIX. There now is an easy way to download the Power BI Report or the Power BI Semantic model…