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Admin

admin

6 Posts
Admin15. 8. 2023 19 min

Personal Workspaces in Times of Fabric

From time to time, there is a need to talk about the possibilities, benefits, and dark sides that personal workspaces, aka "My workspace," bring.

APIServiceGovernance
Admin24. 5. 2023 13 min

Domains

As your Power BI / Microsoft Fabric Service grows, the need arises for you to be able to divide the content in a little more detail (e.g., which di...

APIREST APIService
Power Automate6. 2. 2023 11 min

Dataflows refresh monitoring

Dataflows have been with us in Power BI for some time now, and people have gotten more used to them. However, as their popularity grows, so does th...

APIDataflowAdmin
Integration20. 11. 2022 5 min

Restrict Power BI Integration Button in Microsoft Lists

Power BI and integration to Sharepoint Lists have been with us for some time. Some can turn them on, or only specific groups of users can access th...

ServiceAdminSharePoint
M9. 11. 2022 3 min

Power Query vs. Power BI Rest API

The Power BI Service hides data that is not visible at first peek but can help us control the Service and properly check whether there are any irre...

Power QueryREST APIAdmin
Admin1. 7. 2022 6 min

Rebinding Power BI Reports to Different Dataset

Duplicate Power BI Dataset, from which colleagues have already managed to make their reports? Doesn't that sound scary? Personally yes!

ServiceREST APIPowerShell
Ai

ai

1 Posts
AI19. 8. 2026 5 min

I built my "AI Brain" in Obsidian. Then I had to tear it down.

Everyone recommends Obsidian as THE solution for your "AI brain". I built one, and a few weeks later I had found four flaws that broke it. Here is ...

ObsidianClaudeMCP
Api

api

9 Posts
Fabric17. 4. 2025 25 min

Fabric Notification Bot for Microsoft Teams

Tired of missing key insights buried in Power BI alerts or overflowing email inboxes, I decided to build my own notification bot for Microsoft Team...

AzurePythonDevelopment
GraphQL12. 7. 2024 14 min

GraphQL in Microsoft Fabric

GraphQL is a query language specification that allows users to define the structure of data to be returned from an API.

FabricAPIDevelopment
Fabric30. 10. 2023 8 min

Copy Activity, Dataflows Gen2, and Notebooks vs. SharePoint Lists

Excel is not a database... so Sharepoint is not a database. But that doesn't mean that people don't use it that way often, and even if they don't, ...

SharePointDataflowCopy activity
Admin15. 8. 2023 19 min

Personal Workspaces in Times of Fabric

From time to time, there is a need to talk about the possibilities, benefits, and dark sides that personal workspaces, aka "My workspace," bring.

APIServiceGovernance
Fabric30. 6. 2023 22 min

Lessons learnt from PySpark Notebooks and extracting APIs

PySpark Notebooks inside Fabric are a high-speed solution for data transformation. But what about their ability to get data from the API?

NotebookPySparkMarkdown
Admin24. 5. 2023 13 min

Domains

As your Power BI / Microsoft Fabric Service grows, the need arises for you to be able to divide the content in a little more detail (e.g., which di...

APIREST APIService
DAX12. 4. 2023 13 min

Execute Query endpoint - Get your data from datasets

The fact that I have data in Power BI does not end the story. This is the start of a new one!

APIREST APIPower Automate
Power Automate6. 2. 2023 11 min

Dataflows refresh monitoring

Dataflows have been with us in Power BI for some time now, and people have gotten more used to them. However, as their popularity grows, so does th...

APIDataflowAdmin
M22. 1. 2023 14 min

APIs as Power BI Datasources

There is an abundance of APIs around us, and we use them in our daily routine without thinking about them anymore.

Power QueryAPI
Azure

azure

2 Posts
Fabric17. 4. 2025 25 min

Fabric Notification Bot for Microsoft Teams

Tired of missing key insights buried in Power BI alerts or overflowing email inboxes, I decided to build my own notification bot for Microsoft Team...

AzurePythonDevelopment
M9. 11. 2022 3 min

Power Query vs. Power BI Rest API

The Power BI Service hides data that is not visible at first peek but can help us control the Service and properly check whether there are any irre...

Power QueryREST APIAdmin
Calculation_groups

calculation_groups

7 Posts
DAX16. 4. 2024 7 min

Combining Calculation Groups

Calculation Groups are a powerful feature in Power BI that allows you to create reusable calculations.

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX6. 1. 2023 7 min

Dynamic windows in calculation groups

The WINDOWS function is becoming very popular because it can save a lot of time both for the execution of the calculation and for the development i...

Calculation groupsField parametersWINDOW
DAX29. 12. 2022 17 min

INDEX as a friend for Conditional Format Strings

INDEX + Calculation Groups + Custom Format String Expression = Quick dynamic answers

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX13. 12. 2022 10 min

OFFSET and its usage with Calculation Groups

December update brings officially new DAX functions into PowerBI. I was playing a bit with one of them... with OFFSET and especially in cooperation...

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX6. 11. 2022 11 min

Multi-Color Gradient with DAX in Power BI

There are more than just many visual elements and their use in Power BI.Many of them are natively, and you have to create them yourself. One such s...

Calculation groupsConditional formattingColor
DAX30. 9. 2022 13 min

Conditional Formatting with Calculation Groups

The second part of this series is focused on conditional formatting and calculation groups. Because calculation groups are a fascinating component ...

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX18. 5. 2022 12 min

Field parameters in cooperation with Calculation groups

As soon as I saw the field parameters, I was very interested in the possibilities of use with calculation groups and their mutual overlap. So I fin...

Calculation groupsField parametersConditional formatting
Claude

claude

1 Posts
AI19. 8. 2026 5 min

I built my "AI Brain" in Obsidian. Then I had to tear it down.

Everyone recommends Obsidian as THE solution for your "AI brain". I built one, and a few weeks later I had found four flaws that broke it. Here is ...

ObsidianClaudeMCP
Color

color

1 Posts
DAX6. 11. 2022 11 min

Multi-Color Gradient with DAX in Power BI

There are more than just many visual elements and their use in Power BI.Many of them are natively, and you have to create them yourself. One such s...

Calculation groupsConditional formattingColor
Comments

comments

1 Posts
M4. 3. 2023 9 min

Documentation options in Power Query

Document your code! One day you will thank yourself, or someone else will thank you, who will take over.

Power QueryDocumentationComments
Conditional_formatting

conditional_formatting

8 Posts
DAX16. 4. 2024 7 min

Combining Calculation Groups

Calculation Groups are a powerful feature in Power BI that allows you to create reusable calculations.

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX29. 12. 2022 17 min

INDEX as a friend for Conditional Format Strings

INDEX + Calculation Groups + Custom Format String Expression = Quick dynamic answers

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX13. 12. 2022 10 min

OFFSET and its usage with Calculation Groups

December update brings officially new DAX functions into PowerBI. I was playing a bit with one of them... with OFFSET and especially in cooperation...

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX6. 11. 2022 11 min

Multi-Color Gradient with DAX in Power BI

There are more than just many visual elements and their use in Power BI.Many of them are natively, and you have to create them yourself. One such s...

Calculation groupsConditional formattingColor
DAX30. 9. 2022 13 min

Conditional Formatting with Calculation Groups

The second part of this series is focused on conditional formatting and calculation groups. Because calculation groups are a fascinating component ...

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX27. 9. 2022 8 min

Conditional Formatting based on Field Parameters

Conditional formatting. It can sometimes seem like magic, what a few colors that appear at the right moment can do. Of course, the same applies to ...

Field parametersFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX12. 8. 2022 11 min

Hierarchies with dynamic levels in Matrix by Field Parameters

Hierarchies are the bread and butter of Power BI. We've probably all come across that the Matrix within the hierarchy often displays empty values ​...

Field parametersHierarchiesConditional formatting
DAX18. 5. 2022 12 min

Field parameters in cooperation with Calculation groups

As soon as I saw the field parameters, I was very interested in the possibilities of use with calculation groups and their mutual overlap. So I fin...

Calculation groupsField parametersConditional formatting
Copy_activity

copy_activity

1 Posts
Fabric30. 10. 2023 8 min

Copy Activity, Dataflows Gen2, and Notebooks vs. SharePoint Lists

Excel is not a database... so Sharepoint is not a database. But that doesn't mean that people don't use it that way often, and even if they don't, ...

SharePointDataflowCopy activity
Data_driven

data_driven

1 Posts
Power Automate27. 5. 2022 1 min

Why Should I Be Interested in the ExecuteQueries Endpoint of PBI REST API?

At the end of last year, one called ExecuteQueries was added to the endpoint portfolio in the Power BI REST API. It is an endpoint that allows you ...

REST APIServiceData driven
Data_extraction

data_extraction

2 Posts
Fabric17. 4. 2025 25 min

Fabric Notification Bot for Microsoft Teams

Tired of missing key insights buried in Power BI alerts or overflowing email inboxes, I decided to build my own notification bot for Microsoft Team...

AzurePythonDevelopment
DAX12. 4. 2023 13 min

Execute Query endpoint - Get your data from datasets

The fact that I have data in Power BI does not end the story. This is the start of a new one!

APIREST APIPower Automate
Data_storytelling

data_storytelling

3 Posts
Fabric17. 4. 2025 25 min

Fabric Notification Bot for Microsoft Teams

Tired of missing key insights buried in Power BI alerts or overflowing email inboxes, I decided to build my own notification bot for Microsoft Team...

AzurePythonDevelopment
DAX16. 4. 2024 7 min

Combining Calculation Groups

Calculation Groups are a powerful feature in Power BI that allows you to create reusable calculations.

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX1. 4. 2023 16 min

SVG options in Matrix

Dynamic design using SVG? Sure! Here we go.

VisualSVGData storytelling
Dataflow

dataflow

2 Posts
Fabric30. 10. 2023 8 min

Copy Activity, Dataflows Gen2, and Notebooks vs. SharePoint Lists

Excel is not a database... so Sharepoint is not a database. But that doesn't mean that people don't use it that way often, and even if they don't, ...

SharePointDataflowCopy activity
Power Automate6. 2. 2023 11 min

Dataflows refresh monitoring

Dataflows have been with us in Power BI for some time now, and people have gotten more used to them. However, as their popularity grows, so does th...

APIDataflowAdmin
Date

date

1 Posts
M9. 1. 2023 16 min

Date dimensions in Power Query

The date dimension is one of the most fundamental dimensions needed in reporting. That is because we are primarily interested in results from the p...

Power QueryDateDimension
Dax

dax

13 Posts
DAX16. 4. 2024 7 min

Combining Calculation Groups

Calculation Groups are a powerful feature in Power BI that allows you to create reusable calculations.

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX6. 5. 2023 14 min

Number of Measures Matters

Measures are a crucial component in Power BI. But can we have an unlimited number of them?

DevelopmentPerformanceMeasure
DAX12. 4. 2023 13 min

Execute Query endpoint - Get your data from datasets

The fact that I have data in Power BI does not end the story. This is the start of a new one!

APIREST APIPower Automate
DAX1. 4. 2023 16 min

SVG options in Matrix

Dynamic design using SVG? Sure! Here we go.

VisualSVGData storytelling
DAX26. 3. 2023 7 min

The dynamic ratio of top X products to the rest

It would be best to give users different data exploration options when creating analytical views. This is one of the practical options.

RANKXTOPNVisual
DAX6. 1. 2023 7 min

Dynamic windows in calculation groups

The WINDOWS function is becoming very popular because it can save a lot of time both for the execution of the calculation and for the development i...

Calculation groupsField parametersWINDOW
DAX29. 12. 2022 17 min

INDEX as a friend for Conditional Format Strings

INDEX + Calculation Groups + Custom Format String Expression = Quick dynamic answers

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX13. 12. 2022 10 min

OFFSET and its usage with Calculation Groups

December update brings officially new DAX functions into PowerBI. I was playing a bit with one of them... with OFFSET and especially in cooperation...

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX6. 11. 2022 11 min

Multi-Color Gradient with DAX in Power BI

There are more than just many visual elements and their use in Power BI.Many of them are natively, and you have to create them yourself. One such s...

Calculation groupsConditional formattingColor
DAX30. 9. 2022 13 min

Conditional Formatting with Calculation Groups

The second part of this series is focused on conditional formatting and calculation groups. Because calculation groups are a fascinating component ...

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX27. 9. 2022 8 min

Conditional Formatting based on Field Parameters

Conditional formatting. It can sometimes seem like magic, what a few colors that appear at the right moment can do. Of course, the same applies to ...

Field parametersFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX12. 8. 2022 11 min

Hierarchies with dynamic levels in Matrix by Field Parameters

Hierarchies are the bread and butter of Power BI. We've probably all come across that the Matrix within the hierarchy often displays empty values ​...

Field parametersHierarchiesConditional formatting
DAX18. 5. 2022 12 min

Field parameters in cooperation with Calculation groups

As soon as I saw the field parameters, I was very interested in the possibilities of use with calculation groups and their mutual overlap. So I fin...

Calculation groupsField parametersConditional formatting
Development

development

10 Posts
AI19. 8. 2026 5 min

I built my "AI Brain" in Obsidian. Then I had to tear it down.

Everyone recommends Obsidian as THE solution for your "AI brain". I built one, and a few weeks later I had found four flaws that broke it. Here is ...

ObsidianClaudeMCP
Fabric17. 4. 2025 25 min

Fabric Notification Bot for Microsoft Teams

Tired of missing key insights buried in Power BI alerts or overflowing email inboxes, I decided to build my own notification bot for Microsoft Team...

AzurePythonDevelopment
Fabric10. 3. 2025 14 min

Write your data into Lakehouse by Notebooks

There are many ways to write data into Lakehouse, even using Notebooks.

PythonDevelopmentNotebooks
Fabric11. 10. 2024 20 min

Orchestration Fabric Notebooks

How to manage individual notebooks to efficiently utilize shared environment resources?

OrchestrationDevelopmentNotebooks
GraphQL12. 7. 2024 14 min

GraphQL in Microsoft Fabric

GraphQL is a query language specification that allows users to define the structure of data to be returned from an API.

FabricAPIDevelopment
Template18. 12. 2023 10 min

Power BI Templates

".pbit" files are well-known in the Power BI world. But this is not the only type of "template" we can encounter. It depends on the scenario we are...

DevelopmentPower QueryGovernance
DAX6. 5. 2023 14 min

Number of Measures Matters

Measures are a crucial component in Power BI. But can we have an unlimited number of them?

DevelopmentPerformanceMeasure
M29. 4. 2023 7 min

Parsing data from JSONs

JSON is one of the most common data file types you'll get back when you try downloading data from an API.

Power QueryDevelopmentJSON
DAX12. 4. 2023 13 min

Execute Query endpoint - Get your data from datasets

The fact that I have data in Power BI does not end the story. This is the start of a new one!

APIREST APIPower Automate
M4. 3. 2023 9 min

Documentation options in Power Query

Document your code! One day you will thank yourself, or someone else will thank you, who will take over.

Power QueryDocumentationComments
Dimension

dimension

1 Posts
M9. 1. 2023 16 min

Date dimensions in Power Query

The date dimension is one of the most fundamental dimensions needed in reporting. That is because we are primarily interested in results from the p...

Power QueryDateDimension
Documentation

documentation

1 Posts
M4. 3. 2023 9 min

Documentation options in Power Query

Document your code! One day you will thank yourself, or someone else will thank you, who will take over.

Power QueryDocumentationComments
Domains

domains

1 Posts
Admin24. 5. 2023 13 min

Domains

As your Power BI / Microsoft Fabric Service grows, the need arises for you to be able to divide the content in a little more detail (e.g., which di...

APIREST APIService
Excel

excel

1 Posts
M13. 6. 2023 21 min

Extraction of Colored Excel Cells

Everyone knows that Power Query can get data from individual cells in Excel. But what about only colored cells?

Power QueryExtractionExcel
Extraction

extraction

1 Posts
M13. 6. 2023 21 min

Extraction of Colored Excel Cells

Everyone knows that Power Query can get data from individual cells in Excel. But what about only colored cells?

Power QueryExtractionExcel
Fabric

fabric

7 Posts
Fabric17. 4. 2025 25 min

Fabric Notification Bot for Microsoft Teams

Tired of missing key insights buried in Power BI alerts or overflowing email inboxes, I decided to build my own notification bot for Microsoft Team...

AzurePythonDevelopment
Fabric10. 3. 2025 14 min

Write your data into Lakehouse by Notebooks

There are many ways to write data into Lakehouse, even using Notebooks.

PythonDevelopmentNotebooks
Fabric11. 10. 2024 20 min

Orchestration Fabric Notebooks

How to manage individual notebooks to efficiently utilize shared environment resources?

OrchestrationDevelopmentNotebooks
GraphQL12. 7. 2024 14 min

GraphQL in Microsoft Fabric

GraphQL is a query language specification that allows users to define the structure of data to be returned from an API.

FabricAPIDevelopment
Fabric30. 10. 2023 8 min

Copy Activity, Dataflows Gen2, and Notebooks vs. SharePoint Lists

Excel is not a database... so Sharepoint is not a database. But that doesn't mean that people don't use it that way often, and even if they don't, ...

SharePointDataflowCopy activity
Admin15. 8. 2023 19 min

Personal Workspaces in Times of Fabric

From time to time, there is a need to talk about the possibilities, benefits, and dark sides that personal workspaces, aka "My workspace," bring.

APIServiceGovernance
Fabric30. 6. 2023 22 min

Lessons learnt from PySpark Notebooks and extracting APIs

PySpark Notebooks inside Fabric are a high-speed solution for data transformation. But what about their ability to get data from the API?

NotebookPySparkMarkdown
Field_parameters

field_parameters

4 Posts
DAX6. 1. 2023 7 min

Dynamic windows in calculation groups

The WINDOWS function is becoming very popular because it can save a lot of time both for the execution of the calculation and for the development i...

Calculation groupsField parametersWINDOW
DAX27. 9. 2022 8 min

Conditional Formatting based on Field Parameters

Conditional formatting. It can sometimes seem like magic, what a few colors that appear at the right moment can do. Of course, the same applies to ...

Field parametersFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX12. 8. 2022 11 min

Hierarchies with dynamic levels in Matrix by Field Parameters

Hierarchies are the bread and butter of Power BI. We've probably all come across that the Matrix within the hierarchy often displays empty values ​...

Field parametersHierarchiesConditional formatting
DAX18. 5. 2022 12 min

Field parameters in cooperation with Calculation groups

As soon as I saw the field parameters, I was very interested in the possibilities of use with calculation groups and their mutual overlap. So I fin...

Calculation groupsField parametersConditional formatting
Format_string

format_string

5 Posts
DAX16. 4. 2024 7 min

Combining Calculation Groups

Calculation Groups are a powerful feature in Power BI that allows you to create reusable calculations.

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX29. 12. 2022 17 min

INDEX as a friend for Conditional Format Strings

INDEX + Calculation Groups + Custom Format String Expression = Quick dynamic answers

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX13. 12. 2022 10 min

OFFSET and its usage with Calculation Groups

December update brings officially new DAX functions into PowerBI. I was playing a bit with one of them... with OFFSET and especially in cooperation...

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX30. 9. 2022 13 min

Conditional Formatting with Calculation Groups

The second part of this series is focused on conditional formatting and calculation groups. Because calculation groups are a fascinating component ...

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
DAX27. 9. 2022 8 min

Conditional Formatting based on Field Parameters

Conditional formatting. It can sometimes seem like magic, what a few colors that appear at the right moment can do. Of course, the same applies to ...

Field parametersFormat stringConditional formatting
Governance

governance

2 Posts
Template18. 12. 2023 10 min

Power BI Templates

".pbit" files are well-known in the Power BI world. But this is not the only type of "template" we can encounter. It depends on the scenario we are...

DevelopmentPower QueryGovernance
Admin15. 8. 2023 19 min

Personal Workspaces in Times of Fabric

From time to time, there is a need to talk about the possibilities, benefits, and dark sides that personal workspaces, aka "My workspace," bring.

APIServiceGovernance
Graphql

graphql

1 Posts
GraphQL12. 7. 2024 14 min

GraphQL in Microsoft Fabric

GraphQL is a query language specification that allows users to define the structure of data to be returned from an API.

FabricAPIDevelopment
Hierarchies

hierarchies

1 Posts
DAX12. 8. 2022 11 min

Hierarchies with dynamic levels in Matrix by Field Parameters

Hierarchies are the bread and butter of Power BI. We've probably all come across that the Matrix within the hierarchy often displays empty values ​...

Field parametersHierarchiesConditional formatting
Index

index

1 Posts
DAX29. 12. 2022 17 min

INDEX as a friend for Conditional Format Strings

INDEX + Calculation Groups + Custom Format String Expression = Quick dynamic answers

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
Integration

integration

1 Posts
Integration20. 11. 2022 5 min

Restrict Power BI Integration Button in Microsoft Lists

Power BI and integration to Sharepoint Lists have been with us for some time. Some can turn them on, or only specific groups of users can access th...

ServiceAdminSharePoint
Json

json

1 Posts
M29. 4. 2023 7 min

Parsing data from JSONs

JSON is one of the most common data file types you'll get back when you try downloading data from an API.

Power QueryDevelopmentJSON
Knowledge_management

knowledge_management

1 Posts
AI19. 8. 2026 5 min

I built my "AI Brain" in Obsidian. Then I had to tear it down.

Everyone recommends Obsidian as THE solution for your "AI brain". I built one, and a few weeks later I had found four flaws that broke it. Here is ...

ObsidianClaudeMCP
List

list

1 Posts
M29. 4. 2023 7 min

Parsing data from JSONs

JSON is one of the most common data file types you'll get back when you try downloading data from an API.

Power QueryDevelopmentJSON
M

m

6 Posts
M13. 6. 2023 21 min

Extraction of Colored Excel Cells

Everyone knows that Power Query can get data from individual cells in Excel. But what about only colored cells?

Power QueryExtractionExcel
M29. 4. 2023 7 min

Parsing data from JSONs

JSON is one of the most common data file types you'll get back when you try downloading data from an API.

Power QueryDevelopmentJSON
M4. 3. 2023 9 min

Documentation options in Power Query

Document your code! One day you will thank yourself, or someone else will thank you, who will take over.

Power QueryDocumentationComments
M22. 1. 2023 14 min

APIs as Power BI Datasources

There is an abundance of APIs around us, and we use them in our daily routine without thinking about them anymore.

Power QueryAPI
M9. 1. 2023 16 min

Date dimensions in Power Query

The date dimension is one of the most fundamental dimensions needed in reporting. That is because we are primarily interested in results from the p...

Power QueryDateDimension
M9. 11. 2022 3 min

Power Query vs. Power BI Rest API

The Power BI Service hides data that is not visible at first peek but can help us control the Service and properly check whether there are any irre...

Power QueryREST APIAdmin
Markdown

markdown

1 Posts
Fabric30. 6. 2023 22 min

Lessons learnt from PySpark Notebooks and extracting APIs

PySpark Notebooks inside Fabric are a high-speed solution for data transformation. But what about their ability to get data from the API?

NotebookPySparkMarkdown
Mcp

mcp

1 Posts
AI19. 8. 2026 5 min

I built my "AI Brain" in Obsidian. Then I had to tear it down.

Everyone recommends Obsidian as THE solution for your "AI brain". I built one, and a few weeks later I had found four flaws that broke it. Here is ...

ObsidianClaudeMCP
Measure

measure

1 Posts
DAX6. 5. 2023 14 min

Number of Measures Matters

Measures are a crucial component in Power BI. But can we have an unlimited number of them?

DevelopmentPerformanceMeasure
Monitoring

monitoring

2 Posts
Admin24. 5. 2023 13 min

Domains

As your Power BI / Microsoft Fabric Service grows, the need arises for you to be able to divide the content in a little more detail (e.g., which di...

APIREST APIService
Power Automate6. 2. 2023 11 min

Dataflows refresh monitoring

Dataflows have been with us in Power BI for some time now, and people have gotten more used to them. However, as their popularity grows, so does th...

APIDataflowAdmin
Notebook

notebook

2 Posts
Fabric30. 10. 2023 8 min

Copy Activity, Dataflows Gen2, and Notebooks vs. SharePoint Lists

Excel is not a database... so Sharepoint is not a database. But that doesn't mean that people don't use it that way often, and even if they don't, ...

SharePointDataflowCopy activity
Fabric30. 6. 2023 22 min

Lessons learnt from PySpark Notebooks and extracting APIs

PySpark Notebooks inside Fabric are a high-speed solution for data transformation. But what about their ability to get data from the API?

NotebookPySparkMarkdown
Notebooks

notebooks

3 Posts
Fabric17. 4. 2025 25 min

Fabric Notification Bot for Microsoft Teams

Tired of missing key insights buried in Power BI alerts or overflowing email inboxes, I decided to build my own notification bot for Microsoft Team...

AzurePythonDevelopment
Fabric10. 3. 2025 14 min

Write your data into Lakehouse by Notebooks

There are many ways to write data into Lakehouse, even using Notebooks.

PythonDevelopmentNotebooks
Fabric11. 10. 2024 20 min

Orchestration Fabric Notebooks

How to manage individual notebooks to efficiently utilize shared environment resources?

OrchestrationDevelopmentNotebooks
Obsidian

obsidian

1 Posts
AI19. 8. 2026 5 min

I built my "AI Brain" in Obsidian. Then I had to tear it down.

Everyone recommends Obsidian as THE solution for your "AI brain". I built one, and a few weeks later I had found four flaws that broke it. Here is ...

ObsidianClaudeMCP
Offset

offset

1 Posts
DAX13. 12. 2022 10 min

OFFSET and its usage with Calculation Groups

December update brings officially new DAX functions into PowerBI. I was playing a bit with one of them... with OFFSET and especially in cooperation...

Calculation groupsFormat stringConditional formatting
Orchestration

orchestration

1 Posts
Fabric11. 10. 2024 20 min

Orchestration Fabric Notebooks

How to manage individual notebooks to efficiently utilize shared environment resources?

OrchestrationDevelopmentNotebooks
Performance

performance

1 Posts
DAX6. 5. 2023 14 min

Number of Measures Matters

Measures are a crucial component in Power BI. But can we have an unlimited number of them?

DevelopmentPerformanceMeasure
Power_automate

power_automate

3 Posts
DAX12. 4. 2023 13 min

Execute Query endpoint - Get your data from datasets

The fact that I have data in Power BI does not end the story. This is the start of a new one!

APIREST APIPower Automate
Power Automate6. 2. 2023 11 min

Dataflows refresh monitoring

Dataflows have been with us in Power BI for some time now, and people have gotten more used to them. However, as their popularity grows, so does th...

APIDataflowAdmin
Power Automate27. 5. 2022 1 min

Why Should I Be Interested in the ExecuteQueries Endpoint of PBI REST API?

At the end of last year, one called ExecuteQueries was added to the endpoint portfolio in the Power BI REST API. It is an endpoint that allows you ...

REST APIServiceData driven
Power_query

power_query

7 Posts
Template18. 12. 2023 10 min

Power BI Templates

".pbit" files are well-known in the Power BI world. But this is not the only type of "template" we can encounter. It depends on the scenario we are...

DevelopmentPower QueryGovernance
M13. 6. 2023 21 min

Extraction of Colored Excel Cells

Everyone knows that Power Query can get data from individual cells in Excel. But what about only colored cells?

Power QueryExtractionExcel
M29. 4. 2023 7 min

Parsing data from JSONs

JSON is one of the most common data file types you'll get back when you try downloading data from an API.

Power QueryDevelopmentJSON
M4. 3. 2023 9 min

Documentation options in Power Query

Document your code! One day you will thank yourself, or someone else will thank you, who will take over.

Power QueryDocumentationComments
M22. 1. 2023 14 min

APIs as Power BI Datasources

There is an abundance of APIs around us, and we use them in our daily routine without thinking about them anymore.

Power QueryAPI
M9. 1. 2023 16 min

Date dimensions in Power Query

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