If you pronounce PBIX as "pee-bix", then you *must* pluralize it as PBIces "pee-bi-sees", similar to index. I don't make the rules, but that is just how it is.

Fun fact, the #PowerBI preview feature is "Power BI Project (.pbip) save option", but this preview feature is also required to *open* a PBIP. Pedantic? Maybe, but we're dealing in software. Precision is required.

How often do you buy a new book for a project? I think it's a good idea. Anyone wanna take a guess about one of my primary focuses this year?

I've got some work to do. antifound.com/posts/advancin…

"You know it's getting real when you add a new column to your spreadsheet." youtube.com/watch?v=W4QSGl…

Direct Lake is just optimized import refresh and an automatic hybrid model. Am I wrong?

Wanna use DAX Query view against a model in the Service without downloading the PBIX? Make a new thin PBIX live connected to the published model. Add a local table, making a composite model. Now you can query the hosted model from the local PBIX. Hat tip OklahomaPowerBI

Make sure to say hi to Daniel Otykier who is representing us at SQLSaturday Vienna #TabularEditor #Fabric #PowerBI

Premature optimization may be the root of all evil, but it is never too early to avoid #PowerBI's native N:N relationship type. cc Alex Barbeau and the numerous optimization projects we've had that come down to excising native N:Ns from models.

It's always exciting to make your first contribution at a new organization. Just finished up my first PR for Tabular Editor. I remain very excited to advance the developer experience for Power BI and Tabular professionals.

Things are always improved by the addition of a date dimension.* * This includes that most important model design KPI: # of Dimensions.

Design guideline I've repeated much, lately: Pick the least powerful tool or feature that can do what you want Specifically, calc groups should not be your first thought for solving any problems, but they are a great tool to have if you've exhausted other options in #PowerBI

A benefit of normalization (compared to a denormalized schema collapsing many relations into a flat dimension) I hadn't appreciated: it forces you to explicitly define cardinalities between same-table fields in the denormalized version This has helped in documentation reviews

Regarding the size of the product and amount to learn in #PowerBI and Fabric: It's not so much Software-as-a-Service as it is Analytics-Stack-as-a-Service. No one is a deep expert on all layers of a stack. Don't feel bad if you don't know it all. No one does.

Tabular Editor <3 Tabular Tools <3 Fabric!

Security vulnerability in #SSH #openssh on #linux Affected distros definitely include Fedora 41 and Rawhide and Debian testing and Debian sid. Report and distro info below. openwall.com/lists/oss-secu… redhat.com/en/blog/urgent… lists.debian.org/debian-securit… CVE: cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvenam…

𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘃𝘀. 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗜 What is the right choice between Direct Lake and Import mode in Power BI? #powerbi #vertipaq #directlake #import sqlbi.com/blog/marco/202…

Upgrading from #PowerBI Desktop March '24 to April '24 (and future releases?) and using PBIP format? Watch out for a file extension that changed from 'definition.pbidataset' to 'definition.pbism'. March and prior use the former, and April the latter. March can't open April PBIPs