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A short release, read against the documentation: what is really generally available, what is preview, what hasn’t shipped, and the capacity…

Power BI September 2026 update explained: DirectQuery web modeling, full-text search in DAX, PBIP GA, hosted MCP server, and the limits the…

The July 2026 Power BI update looks like a maintenance release on the surface. Look closer and it is one of the most strategically coherent…

Most monthly Power BI updates are a list of features. The June 2026 release is something else — the point at which the semantic model stops…

A surprising amount of everyday DAX exists just to manage filter context. Calculating a simple group average shouldn’t require ALLSELECTED…

Year-over-year comparisons in retail could be misleading by default. A store that opened in August or closed for renovation in March will…

Slow Power BI refreshes are rarely a hardware problem. They are almost always a query design problem — specifically, where the data…

Heatmaps in Power BI are easy to build with a matrix visual. The trouble starts when you try to combine the matrix with bar and column…

A scenario that is becoming increasingly common in data teams:

Your Power BI refresh used to take 15 minutes.