SQL Server 2025 Fabric Mirroring: Change Feed vs CDC Explained
SQL Server 2025 replaces CDC with a new change feed for Fabric mirroring giving you lower overhead, self-healing DDL, no sysadmin required. Here's what changed and what to plan for.
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New Video: Optimizing Azure Data Factory ForEach Parallel Execution
I just published a new video to our YouTube channel explaining how Azure Data Factory ForEach activities work as far as parallel execution.
Data Viz in Fabric Notebooks
Lots of people have created Power BI reports, using interactive data visualizations to explore and communicate data. When Power BI was first created, it was used in situations that weren’t ideal because that was all we had as far as cloud-based tools in the Microsoft data stack. Now, in addition to interactive reports, we have […]
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Check Power BI Bookmarks with Semantic Link Labs
Have you ever added a visual to a Power BI report page and published the updated report only to realize you forgot to adjust a related bookmark? It’s very easy to do. The Power BI user interface doesn’t allow you to determine which visuals are included in a bookmark that includes only selected visuals. And […]
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Check Power BI report interactions with Semantic Link Labs
It can be tedious to check what visual interactions have been configured in a Power BI report. If you have a lot of bookmarks, this becomes even more important. If you do this manually, you have to turn on Edit Interactions and select each visual to see what interactions it is emitting to the other […]
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Semantic Link Labs: A Key-player in Power BI Automation
Setting page visibility and the active page are often overlooked last steps when publishing a Power BI report. It’s easy to forget the active page since it’s just set to whatever page was open when you last saved the report. But we don’t have to settle for manually checking these things before we deploy to […]
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Images in PBIR Format Reports: A Guide to Easy Replacements
With the PBIR format of Power BI reports, it’s much easier to make report updates outside of Power BI Desktop. One thing you may want to do is to switch out an image in a report. Maybe you need to rebrand a report, updating some of the images (logos and background images). You could import […]
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Semantic Link Labs with Power BI: Finding fields used in a Power BI report in PBIR format
Have you ever wondered where a certain field is used in a report? Or maybe you need an easy way to find broken field references in a report? Certain 3rd-party tools such as Measure Killer and Power BI Helper (not updated recently) have helped us with this task in the past. But now we can […]
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