Category: Power BI

Discover Adam and Patrick’s Epic 2024 Adventure

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July is here and conferences are coming for the 2nd half of 2024. Learn where you’ll find Adam and Patrick and how you can register. We hope to see you there!

SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2024 – July 27th
https://sqlsaturday.com/2024-07-27-sqlsaturday1076/

Data Saturday Dallas – September 7th
https://datasaturdays.com/Event/20240907-datasaturday0056

Power Platform Conference – Las Vegas, NV – September 18-20th
https://powerplatformconf.com/

European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference – Stockholm, Sweden – Sept 24-27th
https://aka.ms/fabcon-europe

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REPLAY Microsoft Fabric / Power BI Q&A – LIVE (July 13, 2024)

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Join us live as we answer your questions about Microsoft Fabric (including Power BI)! Get your questions in the chat early as we don’t get to all of them.

💥 30 minutes: Open Q&A (Public)
💥 Then… Members Only Chat (Public can watch & Super Chat for Questions)

📢 RULES FOR Q&A: 📢

👉 Put a “Q:” in front of your comment to help us identify questions!
👉 Super chats take priority
👉 Do NOT re-post your questions! We’ll get to as many questions as we can.
👉 If you SPAM your question, you will be put in timeout

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REPLAY Microsoft Fabric / Power BI Q&A – LIVE (July 20, 2024)

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Join us live as we answer your questions about Microsoft Fabric (including Power BI)! Get your questions in the chat early as we don’t get to all of them.

💥 30 minutes: Open Q&A (Public)
💥 Then… Members Only Chat (Public can watch & Super Chat for Questions)

📢 RULES FOR Q&A: 📢

👉 Put a “Q:” in front of your comment to help us identify questions!
👉 Super chats take priority
👉 Do NOT re-post your questions! We’ll get to as many questions as we can.
👉 If you SPAM your question, you will be put in timeout

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Overwhelmed with all the Microsoft Fabric Updates???

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There are a lot of updates coming with Microsoft Fabric just like there was with Power BI. It can be overwhelming and hard to keep up. Adam gives some thoughts and lets you know it’s ok!

Managers, What Are You Doing About Change Exhaustion?
https://hbr.org/2022/05/managers-what-are-you-doing-about-change-exhaustion

Navigating Change Fatigue: Strategies For Resilience https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2023/09/18/navigating-change-fatigue-strategies-for-resilience/

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Multiple DAX Measure updates in DAX Query View? Yes, Please!

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We got some new updates for the DAX Query view in Power BI Desktop that take it to a whole other level! Patrick shows you how you can start using it with models in the service and more!

Power BI July 2024 Feature Summary
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-july-2024-feature-summary/#post-27650-_Toc1615654178

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Using AI voice tutors to learn new data and programming skills

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In this video we go through how amazing AI voices are becoming. They can already walk you through in a very customized way how to learn about new skills in the data and programming space. You can acquire advanced new skills much faster than you ever thought possible if you embrace this new way of learning.

Which Microsoft Fabric SQL Analytics Endpoint should you use?

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Both the Microsoft Fabric lakehouse and warehouse have a SQL Analytics Endpoint. But they have different limitations. Which one is the right one to use? Patrick breaks it down!

Better together: the lakehouse and warehouse
https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/data-warehouse/get-started-lakehouse-sql-analytics-endpoint

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Dive into Power BI and Microsoft Fabric – IN PERSON – two events!

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We are presenting a full day introduction to Microsoft Fabric at two different events in September! This is also important for Power BI folks to understand what all is available to them. Join us to get up to speed quickly!

Data Saturday Dallas (Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas:
Friday, September 6, 2024

Data Saturday Registration:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-saturday-dallas-tickets-905734084027
Data Saturday Pre-Con Sign up:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/harnessing-the-power-of-microsoft-fabric-tickets-931743197987

SQLKonferenz (Hanau, Germany):
Monday, September 30, 2024
https://sqlkonferenz.de/precon-workshops-2024/
https://sqlkonferenz.de/registration/

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REPLAY Let’s talk Microsoft Fabric – LIVE w/ Matthew Roche (July 27, 2024)

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Join us live as we answer your questions about Microsoft Fabric (including Power BI)! Get your questions in the chat early as we don’t get to all of them.

💥 30 minutes: Open Q&A (Public)
💥 Then… Members Only Chat (Public can watch & Super Chat for Questions)

📢 RULES FOR Q&A: 📢

👉 Put a “Q:” in front of your comment to help us identify questions!
👉 Super chats take priority
👉 Do NOT re-post your questions! We’ll get to as many questions as we can.
👉 If you SPAM your question, you will be put in timeout

Connect with Matthew:
Mastodon: https://techhub.social/@SQLAllFather
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Happy little accidents with the Power BI Card Visual

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Ready to take the Power BI card visual to the next level? Adam tinkers to get it to look just right. It’s a lot of customization but the outcome is way better than the starting point.

Create a (new) card visualization in Power BI Desktop (preview)
https://learn.microsoft.com/power-bi/visuals/power-bi-visualization-new-card?tabs=On-the-ribbon

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Creative way to use Sempy to update a Power BI report definition

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Need to do a bulk change of something in your Power BI report? The new Power BI report format enables some slick automations. Patrick uses Sempy to get this done!

What is semantic link?
https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/data-science/semantic-link-overview

Items – Get Item Definition
https://learn.microsoft.com/rest/api/fabric/core/items/get-item-definition?tabs=HTTP

Items – Update Item Definition
https://learn.microsoft.com/rest/api/fabric/core/items/update-item-definition?tabs=HTTP

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