I published the semantic model from my last post (which has four text columns CustomerId and CustomerName from the Customers table, CustomerId and TransactionId from the Orders table, none of which ...
There are a couple of flaws in the design of this semantic model that either individually or combined cause that warning message to appear. Remember that it only appears when Copilot thinks it needs ...
What does it mean? What causes it? What can you do to avoid it? Let’s find out. In order to answer your questions better Power BI Copilot creates an index of the values in all the text columns in your ...
What does it mean? What causes it? What can you do to avoid it? Let’s find out. In order to answer your questions better Power BI Copilot creates an index of the values in all the text columns in your ...
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 ...
One of the most confusing, under-documented and widely-misunderstood features of Power BI and Power Query (or Excel “Get & Transform” or whatever you want to call it) are the data privacy settings. I ...
I don’t usually like to blog about topics that I think other people have blogged about already, but despite the fact that Mosha blogged about this several years ago (in fact more than eight years ago, ...
There are a lot of articles and blog posts out there on how to handle OAuth2 authentication when connecting to REST APIs from Power Query in Power BI. However there is also a lot of confusion and ...
In the first two parts of this series (see here and here) I showed how Power BI/Power Query/Excel Get & Transform’s data privacy settings can influence whether query folding takes place or even ...
A long time ago someone – probably from the Power Query dev team – told me that adding primary keys to M tables could improve the performance of certain transformations in Power BI and Excel Power ...
You probably know that dimensional modelling and building a star schema are very important in Power BI. In a star schema you’ll have at least one fact table, and in your fact table you’ll have two ...