2025 Update: As of 1st April 2025, there have been changes to the pricing of Microsoft Power BI Pro and Microsoft Power BI Premium Per User licenses. Also, following FabCon 2025, Copilot and AI capabilities are now included with all paid Microsoft Fabric SKUs (F2 and above). All these updates are covered in the blog below.… READ MORE
Context Microsoft announced in May 2024 the native execution engine for Fabric Spark to improve the performance of workloads in Spark. During Power BI / Fabric Summit 2025 I watched a great session on the topic with Ankita Victor and Estera Kot and decided to try it myself. It is important noting that this feature… READ MORE
It’s no longer a mystery now, you all know Power BI PRO and PPU licenses will see their prices increasing next year Wouldn’t it be time to do a bit of cleaning up after 5 years of distributing these 2 types of licenses ? Obviously , YES ne need to Everything will start with the… READ MORE
In this blog post I am going to show you how to get all the Power BI licenses in your tenant. This can be very useful to understand how many licenses you have, what type of licenses are being paid for, and potentially how you can save by removing licenses due to inactive use or… READ MORE
Hello hello, It’s been quite a few months since I last published. As I was going down the rabbit hole at work I thought it would be a good idea to blog my way through the tunnel. It turns out it was not. The sheer complexity of the task and some big gotchas rendered the… READ MORE
When you first load a table into Power BI, one of the key decisions you’ll need to make is whether to use Import mode or DirectQuery mode. Both options have distinct advantages and drawbacks, and the best choice for your use case will depend on your specific requirements. In recent developments, a new option, Direct… READ MORE
Download a Free PDF-curated Microsoft Fabric Study Guide. Microsoft Fabric is tagged as the next-generation analytics because it allows you to easily set up your experience and power all your workloads using a single resource pool. A study on Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) of Fabric by Forrester Consulting in June 2024 identified it has a… READ MORE
A deep understanding into React Native’s new architecture, covering JSI, TurboModules, Fabric, and Yoga for improved performance and interoperability. React Native’s new architecture brings significant improvements in performance, efficiency, and modularity. At its core, it introduces JSI (JavaScript Interface) for seamless JavaScript-to-native communication, TurboModules for optimized native module management, Fabric for a faster and more flexible rendering system, and Yoga for efficient layout… READ MORE
Introduction Much like a thermos that can keep both hot liquids hot and cold liquids cold (but not at the same time), we – as data architects and engineers – used to be very adamant about not mixing transactional processing (OLTP) and analytical processing (OLAP) on the same infrastructure since the latency-orientation of the one… READ MORE
As an aspiring data scientist, I recently participated in a hands-on learning challenge provided by Microsoft, which introduced me to Microsoft Fabric. Here are some key takeaways from my experience: What is Microsoft Fabric? Microsoft Fabric is a comprehensive data integration and analytics platform that enables organizations to connect, transform, and visualize data from various… READ MORE
