Prologika Newsletter Spring 2025 - prologika.com/prologika-news… Looking for easy ways to create intelligent bots or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) apps? Microsoft Copilot Studio should help. After a year of letting it (and other Microsoft LLM offerings) simmer and inspired ...

Hacking Adventures: Automating Button Click - prologika.com/hacking-advent… Sometimes you may encounter annoying training content that forces you to watch a section before you can explicitly advance to the next one. Never understood why I have to do this or sit for long trainings ...

Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on April 7th (Source Control for Power BI) - prologika.com/atlanta-micros… Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, April 7th at 18:30 ET. Neel Pathak will explain how to do source control for Power BI with Git in...

Two Takeaways from FabCon 2025 - prologika.com/two-takeaways-… The 2025 Fabric Community conference has just concluded. There were many announcements but I found two of them intriguing to make a case for Fabric more compelling should a suitable project comes around: OneSecuri...

Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on May 5th (Optimize Power BI Reports and Semantic Models Using External Tools) - prologika.com/atlanta-micros… Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, May 5th at 18:30 ET. Lakshmana R Boya will show us how to op...

App Integration Tools and Patterns - prologika.com/app-integratio… “...That's when the teardrops start, fella… …Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap” “Dirty deeds done dirt cheap”, AC/DC A few months ago, I did an assessment for a large organization seeking to modernize ...

First Look at Fabric Translytical Task Flows - prologika.com/first-look-at-… The May release of Power BI Desktop includes a new feature called Translytical Task Flows which aims to augment Power BI reports with rudimentary writeback capabilities, such as to make corrections to dat...

Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on June 2nd (Power BI monitoring with Log Analytics Workspace) - prologika.com/atlanta-micros… Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, June 2nd at 18:30 ET. Akshata Revankar (Senior Data & Applied Scientist with ...

Live Monitoring of Fabric Mirroring - prologika.com/live-monitorin… A current project called for mirroring a Google BigQuery dataset to Fabric. This feature is currently in private preview so don’t try to find it. However, the tips I share here should be applicable to other availa...

SaaS Winners and Loosers: Workday and NetSuite - prologika.com/saas-winners-a… “Well, I'll be damned Here comes your ghost again But that's not unusual…” “Diamonds and Rust”, Joan Baez I’ve said in the past that I consider it a travesty when a SaaS provider doesn’t give you ...

Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on July 7nd (Getting Started with Copilot in Microsoft Fabric) - prologika.com/atlanta-micros… Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, July 7nd at 18:30 ET. Shabnam Watson (BI consultant and Microsoft MVP) will i...

Migrating Fabric Import Semantic Models to Direct Lake - prologika.com/migrating-fabr… I’ve recently written about strategies for addressing memory pressures with Fabric large semantic models and I mentioned that one of them was switching to Direct Lake. This blog captures my expe...

Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on August 4th (Power BI Built-in Gems: Time-Saving Features You Should Be Using) - prologika.com/atlanta-micros… Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, August 4th at 18:30 ET, which marks the 15th anniversary of...

From Prompt to Insight: My Daily Dance with AI - prologika.com/ai-daily-dance/ “I go checking out the reports, digging up the dirt You get to meet all sorts in this line of work And when I find the reason, I still can't get used to it And what have you got at the end of the day...

Migrating Fabric Import Semantic Models to Direct Lake (Part 2) - prologika.com/migrating-fabr… I’ve previously shared my experience with migrating a Fabric imported semantic model to Direct Lake. This blog follows up with additional observations about performance. The following s...

Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on September 8th (End-to-End Azure DevOps for Data Engineering in Microsoft Fabric) - prologika.com/atlanta-micros… Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, September 8th at 18:30 ET. Jeff Levy (Data Architect @ P...

Prologika Newsletter Fall 2025 - prologika.com/prologika-news… Like the Ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes, who walked the streets of Athens with a lamp to find one honest man, I have been searching for a convincing Fabric feature for my clients. As Microsoft Fabric evolves, more...

Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on October 9th (Everything You Want to Know About SQL Databases in Fabric) - prologika.com/atlanta-micros… Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Thursday, October 9th (note that we are meeting on Thursday for this meet...

Replicating BigQuery to Fabric - prologika.com/replicating-bi… A recent engagement required replicating some DW tables from Google BigQuery to a Fabric Lakehouse. We considered the Fabric mirroring feature (back then in private preview, now publicly available) and learned some les...

Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on November 3rd (Semantic Link Labs: A Link to the Future) - prologika.com/atlanta-micros… Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, November 3rd at 18:30 ET. Jason Romans (Microsoft MVP) will show you how to use S...