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User-aware calculated columns in Power BI are not materialized and provide different results depending on the current user. This article explains their Expression Context property, and how to use them as virtual calculated columns for localization and custom security scenarios.
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CLASSROOM COURSES IN 2026
Europe: last call!
We are happy to announce that we will be back in London in November! We will add more cities to our Fall schedule, in Europe and in the US. For Mastering DAX classroom courses before Summer, your options are shrinking: Berlin is on waitlist, you can always try your luck, or you might consider Zürich or Amsterdam instead!
 

BI-WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST
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• Exercises available in the Mastering DAX video course, 3rd edition
We released all the exercises for the new Mastering DAX video course: 84 exercises and an additional 7 hours of videos with the exercise corrections, in case the PDF and PBIX with the solutions were not already enough. Time to practice!
May 19, 2026 · SQLBI
• DAX Studio 3.5.2
Maintenance release, no new features, many fixes, and small improvements. No risks: a very good reason to update, for sure!
May 8, 2026 · Darren Gosbell
• Musings on agentic development in Fabric
If you are waiting for the ultimate agentic tool to create BI solutions, don't hold your breath for another year or two. If you accept that it is a work in progress, keep yourself up to date on the different tools and approaches. This article is helpful in that regard.
May 7, 2026 · Jake Duddy
• Power BI semantic model memory errors, part 5: The “Maximum Allowable Memory Allocation” error
There are refresh errors you can just ignore (and better luck next time). But if you want to enter into that rabbit hole, this article (the last of its series) is a good starting point.
Apr 16, 2026 · Chris Webb
• Bookmarks jokes
The comics you see in this newsletter are self-referential. Or call it reinforcement learning, if you like. Marco has a habit of posting less serious content on weekends, but a misunderstanding is 100% around the corner... Like was partly the case for this one. Life is too short not to have fun, even at work.
May 9, 2026 · Marco Russo


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