Category: Power BI

What does Microsoft Fabric mean for Power BI?

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You’ve heard the news about Microsoft Fabric but what about Power BI? How does Power BI fit in? Do you need to migrate anything? Can you still do what you were doing? Adam tells you what you need to know!

Direct Lake (PREVIEW)
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/enterprise/directlake-overview

Microsoft Fabric Build 2023 Day 1
https://youtu.be/5jlP0wdEsls

Microsoft Fabric Build 2023 Day 2
https://youtu.be/wdDx0-jvl7w

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What Is ChatGPT & How Do You Use It

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Get ready for an in-depth journey into the world of ChatGPT, a revolutionary AI engine changing industries and job roles across the globe.

In this video, Sam explores how ChatGPT, developed by the incredible minds at OpenAI, has attracted millions of users within its first 5 days. Discover how you can leverage ChatGPT’s Natural Language Processing abilities to simplify complex concepts, improve your professional workflows and amplify your learning experience.

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Understanding the TIMELINE in DAX Studio

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We brought Marco in to help explain the TIMELINE update within DAX Studio. This can help you understand performance a bit deeper when optimizing your DAX and models. This is one to watch!

DAX Studio
https://daxstudio.org

Marco Russo
https://twitter.com/marcorus
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sqlbi/
https://sqlbi.com

Optimizing DAX Video Course
https://www.sqlbi.com/p/optimizing-dax-video-course/

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Create your FIRST Lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric

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You started your journey into Microsoft Fabric. Ted wants to help you understand how to create your first Lakehouse and start getting data into OneLake!

What is a lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric?
https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/data-engineering/lakehouse-overview

Create a lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric
https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/data-engineering/create-lakehouse

Ted Vilutis
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedvilutis/
https://twitter.com/tvilutis

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🔴 Let’s talk Microsoft Fabric – LIVE w/ Amir Netz (June 10, 2023)

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Join us live as we answer your questions about Microsoft Fabric including Power BI with out guest Amir Netz who is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and CTO/Visionary of Microsoft Fabric. You don’t want to miss this one!

Connect with Amir:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirnetz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amirnetz

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Understanding Microsoft Fabric Licensing and Cost (Public Preview)

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Everyone has been asking and now we have some information. Adam breaks down how Microsoft Fabric Licensing and costs work. Helping you get the most out of Fabric!

Announcing Microsoft Fabric capacities are available for purchase
https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/announcing-microsoft-fabric-capacities-are-available-for-purchase

Microsoft Fabric licenses
https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/enterprise/licenses

Power BI for US government customers
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/enterprise/service-govus-overview

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Use your browser to edit your Power BI dataset within Microsoft Fabric

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More Power BI Desktop capabilities are heading to the service. Modeling in the web is the latest addition. Now Mac users can enjoy editing capabilities! Emily joins us to tell us more!

Edit your data model in the Power BI Service (Preview)
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/blog/edit-your-data-model-in-the-power-bi-service-public-preview-opt-in/

Edit data models in the Power BI service (preview)
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/transform-model/service-edit-data-models

Emily Lisa
https://twitter.com/emilyklisa
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilyklisa/

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Understanding OneLake within Microsoft Fabric

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The key to Microsoft Fabric is definitely OneLake! OneLake enables the reuse of data within Fabric to help drive all of the engines. One copy of the data! Josh Caplan joins us to help get an understanding of the power of OneLake.

OneLake, the OneDrive for data
https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/onelake/onelake-overview

OneLake shortcuts
https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/onelake/onelake-shortcuts

OneLake File Explorer
https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/onelake/onelake-file-explorer

Josh Caplan:
https://twitter.com/JoshCaplan1984
https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-caplan-2139a3a6/

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Understanding Microsoft Fabric — 11 Crucial Things You Need to Know

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Welcome to our guide on Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft’s newly introduced data platform.

In this video, we’re presenting 11 key aspects you need to understand about this powerful tool. We’ll explore its primary functions, integral features, and how it interfaces with other Microsoft products such as OneLake Data Hub, Data Factory, Synapse Data Engineering, Synapse Data Science, Power BI, as well as its AI and Co-pilot integrations.

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Leverage the Microsoft Fabric Trial

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Did you know that Microsoft Fabric comes with a 60-day free Fabric Capacity trial? Adam shows you how to get it and the reason why you may not be able to use it.

Microsoft Fabric (Preview) trial
https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/get-started/fabric-trial

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Why can’t I use Microsoft Fabric?

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You’ve heard about all the great things with Microsoft Fabric, but you don’t see it in the portal. You only see the Power BI items and no persona switcher. What’s going on? Adam shows you to enable Fabric for your tenant.

Enable Microsoft Fabric for your organization
https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/admin/fabric-switch

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What is Microsoft Fabric (Public Preview)?

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Maybe you’ve heard the announcement of Microsoft Fabric. Maybe you are coming from Power BI and curious how Microsoft Fabric relates. Adam gets you up to speed!

Microsft Learn: Get Started with Microsoft Fabric
https://learn.microsoft.com/training/paths/get-started-fabric/

Microsoft Fabric End to End Tutorials
https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/get-started/end-to-end-tutorials

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