Microsoft Fabric
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Introduction What to you get when you mix the recently-gone-generally available Stored Procedure functionality in Power Apps with Stored Procedures in a Fabric Data Warehouse? A match made in heaven is what, I tell you. This blog will introduce you to the general principles of working with Stored Procedures in Power Apps (not just for…
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Introduction I’ve previously written about sharing Power BI Reports with Externals, both through Power BI Embedded (using Power Pages) and to guest users in the Power BI Service. However, a new addition to the line-up of capabilities in Microsoft Fabric allows us to share Semantic Models directly with external users as well, enabling entirely new…
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Introduction An overlooked feature of Power BI, is the ability to create deep links for specific Report Pages, to aid users in navigating to a specific place in your report, decided by you, the report developer. Combined with the ability to add filters to these deep links, and you have a super powerful way to…
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Introduction Data write-back is a topic dear to me, and you may have come across one of my other articles on the subject: Guide: Add Write-Back to Power BI reports with Power Apps – Part 2: Display write-back data LIVE in Power BI reports – Downhill Data (downhill-data.com) With the announcement of Microsoft Fabric, one…
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Introduction Working with API data is often a task reserved for pro-coders. But in Microsoft Fabric, we can leverage the low-code Dataflows Gen2 to connect to any API and output the data to our Fabric Data Lakehouse or Data Warehouse. The article below takes you through the entire process, step by step, of connecting to…
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Introduction If you have ready some of my previous articles, you know that I find Power Apps embedded in Power BI reports absolutely fascinating. You can easily write data back to your sources (Link), create LookUp extensions and generally enhance the functionality of your reports (Link). One gripe I’ve always had however, is that all…
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Do you ever ask yourself: How can I display Power BI reports to people outside my organization? The questions is complex, and has multiple different solutions. One is to use Power BI Embedded, which allow you to embed Power BI reports on websites. But… How does a low-coder go about setting up a website for embedding?…
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Introduction The past two weeks, this blog has outlined how: This week, we will look at completing the Application Lifecycle Management of those solutions, by building on top of the GIT Integrated Workspaces with the built-in Deployment Pipelines. The benefits of leveraging Deployment Pipelines are many, including: Setting up TEST, PROD and the Deployment Pipeline…
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Introduction Developing on Microsoft Power BI / Microsoft Fabric is adopting more and more engineering practices. Modern data teams find themselves looking towards solutions for collaborative development, version control and lifecycle management solutions. The GIT integration feature introduced to workspaces in Power BI / Fabric patches up many of the holes, and in combination with…
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Introduction One thing that has always annoyed me about the Power BI service, is the lack of a certain feature. A feature which exists in countless other Microsoft cloud offerings: Built in Version History. However, with Microsoft Fabric came also the GIT integration for workspaces, which allows for connecting a workspace to an Azure DevOps…
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