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SQLBI+ updates in August 2025

For many years, SUMMARIZECOLUMNS has been a function dedicated to DAX queries and calculated tables, but it was not supported in DAX measures. Over time, Microsoft lifted the limitations, and in June 2024, the function was declared as fully supported…  Read more

A few thoughts about newsletter #300 and AI

Newsletter #300 is a significant milestone for SQLBI: it marks nearly 12 years of sending our updates every two weeks. I thought this was a good time to clarify SQLBI’s position on a topic we haven’t discussed much yet: Artificial…  Read more

SQLBI+ updates in April 2025

We released a new course for our SQLBI+ subscribers: Security in Tabular Semantic Models. This course explains how to implement security in Tabular semantic models, considering different requirements, data model design, DAX implementation, and performance. The training is reference material…  Read more

SQLBI+ updates in December 2024

We released more content in SQLBI+ with two new sessions: Introducing Visual Calculations in Power BI: This two-hour session introduces the Visual Calculations feature in Power BI, which is still in preview. We plan to update the “Understanding Visual Calculations…  Read more

What we are working on at SQLBI

No, this is not the end-of-the-year blog post about what happened in 2024: There is still more than one month to go! However, we are receiving many requests asking what we are working on at SQLBI. I wanted to write…  Read more

SQL database in Fabric

In the mass of announcements made at Microsoft Ignite, I want to mention the SQL database in Fabric, which finally closes a gap we had in Power BI for many years. In May 2022, Microsoft launched Power BI Datamarts in…  Read more