Explicit Measures Podcast

Mike & Tommy run through the new release of Microsoft Fabric Copilot Capacity .... can you use 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 Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on YouTube:...

Mike & Tommy go over an awesome mailbag question... Is Microsoft Fabric too simple for Engineers but too complex for analysts? Moreover, should Power BI even be part of 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...

Mike & Tommy run through an awesome mailbag question focused on what if we only did bronze in Microsoft 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 morning at 730am CS...

Mike & Tommy make a Draft for the major January 2025 Power BI Desktop updates. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-january-2025-feature-summary/#post-28821-_Toc919367718 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...

With the ability to connect to Azure AI Foundry & Microsoft Fabric, the ability to connect your data has never been easier. What are the implications of this? 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...

Mike & Tommy run through the decision guide and choices now that Fabric SQL Databases have entered the mainstream. https://learn.microsoft.com/fabric/database/sql/decision-guide https://www.sqlbi.com/blog/marco/2024/11/23/sql-database-in-fabric/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/get-started/decision-guide-data-store Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss b...

Mike & Tommy hear back from the Core Visuals team on their previous conversation, and go over all the major changes and what to expect. -- We launched a vision board detailing our work. This board also highlights sections of the MSFT Learn site where we are documenting everything in unprecedented detail. This process took months of discussions with the MSFT Learn team, which is why it has take...

Mike & Tommy review the new Metrics Sets & Hub and how it fits in Adoption. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-metrics-sets-are-widely-available-in-public-preview/ 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.tip...

It is a very sad day for us as Seth Bauer is bowing out of the talk game! We say our goodbyes and wish him luck, it has been amazing 4 years doing this with him twice a week! We still talk though! what makes Excel Migrations so difficult? It is not just the data, but expectations... Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #...

Mike, Seth, & Tommy finally talk about Power BI Organizational Apps and the impact and comparison of normal Power BI Apps. 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...

Mike, Seth, & Tommy share in the holiday spirit with Fabric Gifts to each other.

Mike, Seth, & Tommy talk governance and the new OneLake catalog and what it means for Governance. 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...

Mike, Seth, & Tommy run through a great article by Daneil Beech on the rise of the Notebook Engineer: https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-notebook-engineer 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/...

Mike, Seth, and Tommy dive through a great mailbag on getting feedback in a scalable way: I have built a monthly "snapshot" report that is delivered to more than a dozen different business units across my firm. These are the subject of one-on-one meetings between the leads of those units and their manager. However, each business unit also has a marketing lead whose job is to help the business unit...

Mike, Seth, & Tommy go through another mailbag question measuring domain knowledge vs technical knowledge. To what extent does 'knowing data' matter versus knowing THE data in an organization when building a career in data? 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 ....

Mike, Seth, & Tommy run through the news from Microsoft Ignite and discuss a visual guide to DAX Filter Context: https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/filter-context-in-dax-explained-visually/ 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.ti...

Mike, Seth, & Tommy discuss the influx of new updates the PBI Core Visuals Team has been making and if we how inclined to move forward with the updated features. (Note: This was prerecorded before Microsoft Ignite and the release of the Core Visuals Board made available here ). Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #e...

With .pbir and git intergration, along with DAX queries and modeling abilities in Desktop, when does Power BI Desktop get away from a normal pro user and into Dev hands? What do or should pros use? 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://po...

We have a great reply from a listener about datamarts being essential to their team. What about preview and non-"enterprise" grade tools? Where do they 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 ev...

Let's be honest... We could all be better at schedules and meetings... But what makes up a good meeting, and what is the secret sauce for Business Intelligence meetings? 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 episod...

Should a Microsoft Fabric Domain have a Leader? When developing workspaces & domains, how are set up for success? 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...

Mike, Seth, & Tommy run through November 2024 updates and major pricing updates to Power BI licensing. 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 YouT...

Mike, Seth, & Tommy discuss what makes up a successful business intelligence team.

Mike, Seth, & Tommy open up and see if opening up the ability for business users to use OneLake is the right approach. 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 7...

Mike, Seth, & Tommy tackle another great article by Kurt Buehler on how Semantic Link in Fabric Notebooks may change your life. https://data-goblins.com/power-bi/programmatically-modify-reports 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://po...