AI in Power BI: Time to pay attention

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This article by Kurt Buhler is about the state of AI tools with Power BI, and how to use the model context protocol (or MCP) to interact with and control Power BI or Fabric with a large language model.
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A few thoughts about newsletter #300 and AI

An editorial for a special newsletter to clarify SQLBI’s position on a topic we haven't discussed much yet: Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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#300 · Jul 2025

LEARNING

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DATA MODELING - 3 DAYS

	Dec 2-4 - Amsterdam

Mastering DAX - 3 DAYS

	Aug 19-21 - Toronto
	Oct 1-3 - London
	Oct 28-30 - Lugano
	Nov 4-6 - Amsterdam
	Nov 12-14 - Chicago
	Dec 8-10 - Austin

video courses

	Introducing DAX
	Mastering DAX
	Optimizing DAX
	Intro to Data Modeling
	Data Modeling for Power BI
	Mastering Tabular
	DAX Tools Video Course
	DAX Patterns
	Power BI Dashboard Design

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Mastering DAX in London, UK

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London, UK - October 1-3: Mastering DAX

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Mastering DAX in London, UK - October 2025

BI-WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST

Latest news

	• AI is coming to Tabular Editor 3 LLMs are relatively good at writing code in well-known programming languages, but they struggle with less widely-adopted idioms like DAX and TMDL. So, why not modify a semantic model using C# scripts generated by LLMs? This is the path that Tabular Editor is following. You can start creating C# scripts from your favorite LLMs today. We tried that, it works much better than modifying JSON or TMDL directly. Tabular Editor will make your life much easier that way. Jul 25, 2025 · Søren Joensen
	• Power BI July 2025 updates This update comes with many news for Copilot and AI, but what piqued our interest are Organizational themes for reports (in Preview) and the improvements to Pie and Donut Chart. Ok just kidding, Field Parameters are now generally available after so many years. This is more important. Jul 15, 2025 · Microsoft
	• Marking 10 years of Power BI Celebrations will have ended when you read the newsletter, but take a look at the first decade of the Power BI journey. We don't usually get emotional, it's just business, but still... Jul 22, 2025 · Microsoft
	• Perspectives in Power BI semantic models TMDL now allows you to create perspectives, just like Tabular Editor has for many years. The consumption part is still not ideal in Power BI, but one step at a time, we'll get feature parity with Excel also for Perspective consumption. Eventually. Jul 19, 2025 · Zoe Douglas
	• How to get the details for Power BI Performance load testing Unit test, load test: if you are a developer, you are familiar with these concepts, otherwise it could be something new. Well, get used to it because when (not if) you adopt DataOps, they will be relevant. And you can start today, although we are currently in the early days. Jul 15, 2025 · Gilbert Quevauvilliers
	• Fabric Studio v2.0 Administering and managing your Fabric (and Power BI) workspaces from Visual Studio Code makes a lot of sense with this free Add-In. Major release, support of folders and Power BI Project (PBIP) format. Must have. Jul 24, 2025 · Gerhard Brueckl

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