Author: Datasticot
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Fabric in Production – Part 2: Dataflow Gen2
And we’re back for the second blog post of the Fabric in Production series! If you haven’t, I highly recommend you check out part 1 first, which lays the foundation for all of this series. So we’ve got our dev environment which is basically a workspace with several Fabric items: Notebooks, Data Pipelines, Lakehouses, etc.… Read more
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Microsoft Fabric Conference 2024 feedbacks
The Microsoft Fabric Conference 2024 in Stockholm just finished last week and boy what an event! I had the chance to attend that first edition with some of my colleagues from Datatorii and I’m truly thankful for that great opportunity! In this blog post, I want to share my feedback on the event and the… Read more
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Fabric in Production – Part 1: Overall presentation
In this blog post, I’m starting a new serie on Fabric in Production. I’ve been having several issues with the deployment of Fabric items in production lately. So I thought I’d share my thoughts on the matter in a series of blog posts. I haven’t been writing a lot of blog posts lately. Vacations and… Read more
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Microsoft Fabric end to end project (part 2 – Ingestion)
Let’s continue our Fabric end to end project! If you haven’t read part 1, I strongly suggest you read it first. In part 1, we established the groundbase of our project. In part 2, we’re going to be starting the development and we will be ingesting data from the League of Legends (LoL) APIs. Let’s… Read more
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How to rebind Power BI reports to semantic models?
You often want to change the source of a Power BI report to another semantic model: a newer version of the semantic model was published or you just want to easily switch between the development and production semantic models for instance. Usually to do so, you would just download the report as a pbix file… Read more
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Microsoft Fabric end to end project (part 1 – Architecture)
With the march 2024 Fabric release, Microsoft published lots of key features that were crucial to push in production a complete Fabric project. Features such as CI/CD for Fabric Pipelines, gateways for Fabric Pipelines and even simple stuff like folders in Fabric workspaces. No more excuse not to try a project only using only Microsoft… Read more
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Save Power BI reports to TMDL with pbip
The new Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL for short) has been around for almost a year now. TMDL is meant to simplify collaboration and facilitate the reading by human beings of tabular models. With the February 2024 Fabric update, TMDL can now be set up to be the new default format when saving tabular models… Read more
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Which git workflow for Power BI development with pbip?
In my previous blog post about Power BI CI/CD & git integration, we discussed the basics of the .pbip format and how to set it up on a simple environment. In that environment, we were working with only a single Power BI workspace which was linked to a main branch in an Azure DevOps git… Read more
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Collaborative Power BI development with pbip
For many years, having several developers work on the same Power BI report was challenging to say the least. Merging multiple reports into a unique one often gave headaches to Power BI report developers. Tools like AML Toolkit existed to merge semantic model changes (tables, columns, measures, etc.) but even with such tools, the task… Read more
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Power BI CI/CD & git integration
Git integration and Continous Integration / Continous Delivery (or CI/CD in short) set up for Power BI reports and semantic models used to be quite a tedious task until very recently. Pseudo-solutions existed, involving a mix of tools like pbi-tools, .bim file export from Tabular Editor and custom tasks in Azure DevOps pipelines (like Power… Read more