Entries by Meagan Longoria

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Programmatically Retrieving MLV Lineage and Refresh Times

Materialized lake views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric are an effective way to implement medallion architecture declaratively, but once you have a pipeline of MLVs in production, you need visibility into whether they’re current. Fabric’s MLV management area gives you a visual lineage and refresh history, but if you want to build automated alerting, logging, or […]

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Monitoring Fabric Mirroring for SQL 2025

I previously wrote about how the underlying technology for Fabric mirroring changed with SQL Server 2025. The latest version of mirroring that uses the SQL Server Change Feed is reading from the database transaction logs and pushing the data to a landing zone in OneLake. The data is then merged into the Delta tables for […]

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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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