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Introduction On this blog we’ve previously covered quite a few areas of Translytical Task Flows: Having presented a few sessions on Translytical Task Flows at conferences in the past moths, there is one major recurring question: How do you write-back multiple records at once? If you ask me, the questions of bulk write-back/writing back multiple…
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Introduction Recently, I’ve experienced a huge influx in requests from Microsoft Fabric customers wanting a good way for user’s to push data transformation upstream, following Roche’s Maxim: Data should be transformed as far upstream as possible, and as far downstream as necessary. To elaborate slightly, there are tons of Power BI Semantic Models out there…
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Introduction We’ve previously on this blog covered Power Apps write-back for Power BI/Fabric comprehensively, and in the past months we’ve taken a stab at the Fabric Native solution: Translytical Task Flows. However, when comparing the different options, which solution actually comes out on top? The answer is, as always, it depends. Each of the sections…
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Introduction Dataflows Gen2 are frequently (and often rightfully so) bashed for their performance inefficiencies. Especially in comparison with other ingestion and transformation tools in Fabric (Notebooks, Pipelines, Copy Jobs, SPROCs). The fact remains however, that in the hands of a self-service developer, they are an incredibly powerful tool – if you can spare the compute…
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Introduction This blog has previously covered the basics of native Microsoft Fabric / Power BI write-back with Translytical Task Flows. In my first post on the subject, we created a simple Comment/Annotation solution, allowing the user to input free text comments on Data Points directly in Power BI. However, Translytical Task Flows do not only…
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Recently, I was tasked with coming up with something fun for an internal “Power Hour” event, at the end of our annual Strategy Day at my employer Inspari. While I usually keep my darkest secrets to myself, I have occasionally revealed my teenage Rubik’s Cube mania. Either when forced to come up with “Fun Facts”…
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Introduction Microsoft Fabric encourages a broader audience of people to collaborate on the same platform than what we are used to. Backend Developers, Frontend Developers and End Users are all logging in to the same website, and the lines dividing where each role starts and stops are more blurred than ever. A topic which seems…
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Introduction So your old Power BI Premium Capacity has run/is running out, and your organization is acquiring a new Fabric Capacity to replace it. Perhaps the organization even decided to take the chance to move the capacity region to something a little closer to home? If you find yourself in this situation, how do you…
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Introduction 2024 saw the birth of Fabric Symposium. A community driven Microsoft Fabric focused data conference, based on an idea that had been living rent-free in my head for much of 2023, until I finally put in the effort to make it a reality in 2024. I thought the turn of the year, with our…
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Introduction I have written at length about how to create Power Apps embedded in Power BI / Fabric, applying write-back capabilities, and making the most of the integration: However, recently I was faced with a challenge I had not seen before: A simple comment App embedded in Power BI was supposed to show all the…
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