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Explicit Measures Podcast

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Hosted by Mike Carlo, and Tommy Puglia, the Explicit Measures Podcast is a Power BI focused show that is like being around a Power BI Pro’s Water Cooler. With so many available resources in the community that focuses on the “how” in Power BI (how to do Drill Through, how to use DAX, etc.,), the Explicit Measures Podcast is all around the WHY. Why use a particular feature, does it make sense for my users? Build the toolset, learn the how, and then come to the Podcast to the listen to the why in situations we all experience as Power BI Pros.

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443: Mailbag! Future-Proofing Excel - Dashboards to Power BI 22.07.2025 51:21

Mike & Tommy have a great conversation on how do we still build for Excel? Thanks for the mailbag! I’m building Excel sheets for my company to use as sales metrics dashboards. Can you talk about what would make of the ideal Excel migration strategy? I want to build in a way that makes migrating easier in the future, not harder. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to disc...

442: What's Up with DAX? 17.07.2025 1:04:54

Mike & Tommy review the relevance of DAX in the age of Fabric. Is it still #1 in Power Rankings?? Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on YouTube:...

441: What Is Your Numeracy? 15.07.2025 1:08:21

Mike & Tommy talk about requirements for the business to understand their numbers. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on YouTube: https://www.you...

440: A Reflection of 10 Years of Power BI 15.07.2025 1:06:12

Mike & Tommy look back at working in Microsoft Power BI for over a decade. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com...

439: Microsoft Fabric June 2025 Feature Draft 09.07.2025 55:53

Mike & Tommy run through some of the major updates from the June 2025 updates and pick their favorites. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on You...

438: Mailbag! Who Owns the Connection? Managing and Chaos in Fabric Pieplines 03.07.2025 56:54

Mike & Tommy run through another great mailbag question around how to get a handle on Fabric Data Connections and working with your team. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Th...

437: Mailbag! Small Business with Power BI & Fabric 01.07.2025 59:01

Mike & Tommy run through a great mailbag question on how do you deal with organizations not willing to take the plunge to Fabric. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday m...

436: Deep Dive on CI/CD Branching Strategies 26.06.2025 1:13:25

Mike & Tommy are joined one last time by Mathias as they talk technical process and strategy. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on YouTube: http...

435: DataOps is the Future of Power BI Teams 24.06.2025 1:00:53

Mike & Tommy are joined by Mathias as they take on a hot take about if Data Ops is the future of BI Teams. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on...

434: Top Down & Bottom Up for DevOps 24.06.2025 1:05:13

Mike & Tommy are joined again by Mathias as they talk about running through approaches to getting DevOps started right. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at...

433: DevOps & You (and Your Team) (And Your Data) 19.06.2025 1:03:13

Mike & Tommy are joined by Mathias Thierbach to talk about the heck is Data Ops. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on YouTube: https://www.youtu...

432: Mailbag! We Just Want to View Reports 12.06.2025 1:07:08

Mike & Tommy dive into a great mailbag from a listener on simplifying the report viewing experience. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on YouTub...

431: What's New in Microsoft Fabric CI/CD 11.06.2025 1:04:30

Mike & Tommy run through the latest developments with Git, CI/CD, and Data Ops at Microsoft Build 2025. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on You...

430: Build for Reports or Build for AI? 10.06.2025 1:04:00

Mike & Tommy talk about the updates to Copilot and where do Semantic Model fit in. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on YouTube: https://www.you...

429: Shortcut Mania! All the Use Cases of Fabric Shortcuts 03.06.2025 1:03:40

Mike & Tommy break down all the major new updates to Microsoft Fabric Shortcuts from Build and how workflows and process are changing because of it... Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every T...

428: Unpacking Copilot Standalone for Power BI 29.05.2025 1:08:03

Mike & Tommy digest the new Copilot standalone feature in Power BI service and what a potential rollout looks like. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730a...

427: What Microsoft Build 2025 Means for You 27.05.2025 1:00:31

Mike & Tommy break down the incredible announcements at Microsoft Build 2025 around Power BI & Microsoft Fabric and the potential implications moving forward. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes...

426: Introducing Advanced Analytics to Organizations 22.05.2025 46:51

Mike & Tommy argue how to get organizations from bar charts to line charts to more "advanced analytics". Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am...

425: Are We Still Self Service Or Drifting Back to Corporate BI? 20.05.2025 59:45

Mike & Tommy dive into with all the tools and features in Microsoft Fabric, will Self Service still be a thing? Props to Marco Russo & Rui Romano for inspiration. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episo...

424: TMDL & VSCode 15.05.2025 1:03:27

Mike & Tommy discuss their best use cases of TMDL, Semantic Models, and VS Code. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on YouTube: https://www.youtu...

423: Tools in Power BI 14.05.2025 42:19

Mike & Tommy dive through a great article by SQLBI and Kurt Buhler on all the tools you can use outside of just Power BI. https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/tools-in-power-bi/ Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the...

422: Max Performance in Power Query 08.05.2025 1:08:39

Mike & Tommy are joined by the one and only Alex Powers again as they dive into getting the most bang for your buck in Power Query / Dataflows. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday...

421: Power Query with Mr. Powers - Skills to Know & Learn 06.05.2025 1:02:49

Mike & Tommy are joined by the guru of the data GUI, Alex Powers! This is a head first dive into what SHOULD you know in Power Query, how far do you go down the rabbit hole, and what is the future skilling that is needed? Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Vi...

420: Microsoft Fabric Half-Baked Ideas 01.05.2025 1:04:55

Mike & Tommy run through what they consider current "Half-Baked" ideas in Microsoft Fabric & Power BI and what they would do to finish the job. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tues...

419: Do We Design Lakehouses Differently Now? 01.05.2025 1:01:49

Mike & Tommy consider if the advent of Semantic Modeling changes in Power BI & Microsoft Fabric should force us to change the way we design Lakehouses. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page . Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live ev...