Semantic models in simple terms
In this article, we break through the technical jargon to understand what a semantic model is, why it’s important, and how it’s made.
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The Spaceparts Co. Dataset
A learning resource for Tabular Editor and more. The Tabular Editor Enterprise Trainings have been recently released as a free community learning resource. These trainings provide an interactive learning experience to learn about Tabular Editor and data modeling for AAS, SSAS, and Power BI datasets. As part of these trainings, you get access to over
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Fabric Direct Lake with Tabular Editor – Part 2: Creation
A full tutorial on how to use Tabular Editor 3 to create Fabric Direct Lake datasets directly in the tool.
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Tabular Editor 3 August 2023 Release
It is August and its time for a new version of Tabular Editor 3. Summer is heading into its waning days and even though the plan was to make minor improvements and fix bugs in this release, we couldn’t help ourselves and had to get a new feature in: Support for Direct Lake datasets. If
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Fabric Direct Lake Dataset
Direct Lake Datasets: How to use them with Tabular Editor In Microsoft Fabric, datasets have the capability to use Direct Lake mode to connect directly to data sources stored in OneLake as delta tables, which you can create with the various analytical workloads of Fabric. Datasets using Direct Lake (referred to as Direct Lake datasets)
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Composite models in Power BI and Fabric
Benefits and use-cases Power BI provides a variety of ways to enable users with self-service analytics. For example, organizations can opt for a managed self-service BI model (instead of a centralized enterprise BI model). In this model, a Center of Excellence (COE) or central team of data professionals create and manage Power BI datasets. Business
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Using Tabular Editor in Microsoft Fabric
A Sewing Machine for Fabric Microsoft Fabric is an all-in-one analytics platform announced earlier this year that unifies Data Factory, Synapse and Power BI under one roof. With Tabular Editor, you can develop and manage Power BI datasets that are deployed to workspaces using Fabric dedicated capacity. The new capabilities of Fabric and the features
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Creating Multilingual Power BI Datasets
Multilingual Datasets A little known fact about the Power BI service, is that metadata translations actually work just fine for an imported or DirectQuery dataset within a dedicated capacity workspace (Power BI Premium or A SKUs). You can add metadata translations to a dataset in Premium in two ways: Either through the XMLA read/write endpoint or by
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Service Principal access to dedicated capacity XMLA endpoint
This article provides a step-by-step instruction on how to enable Service Principal (SP) access to a Power BI workspace in dedicated capacity (Power BI Premium or embedded/A sku). In the following, I will try to highlight the minimal number of steps necessary to enable Service Principal authentication. You can find all the details in the
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Power BI Tricks – WhatIf parameters
Update May 29th 2019: It turns out that the technique outlined here can be used for SSAS or Azure Analysis Services Tabular models of Compatibility Level 1400+. In fact, just by adding the ParameterMetadata Extended Property (step 9 below) to any numeric column in your model, you can instruct Power BI to display a single-select slider as
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