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Semantic Model creation from Lakehouse tables
Hi KarlMolden
This is how it separates
Before it was like this
Power BI Pro | Power BI Premium capacity ( Diamond ) | Power BI capacity per user
US $ 10 / month | US $ 5000 /month | US $ 25 / Month
Now it is called Microsoft Fabric with
Power BI Dataflow Gen 2 for ETL ( Fabric SQL ) and Power BI Premium in Direct Lake Approach. ( Pay as you go approach or Power BI Premium or Trial Capacity either of three)
Also, To write any Power BI reports ( ETL + Power BI Data Semantic Model + Power BI Data Visulisation = Unified ) , You need to have Power BI Pro license compulsary or trial capacity ( Either of that )
Super UserKarlMolden Any Fabric items including semantic models require a workspace with assigned Fabric capacity. In your case that would be a trial capacity that you received when initiated a 60 days Fabric trial. The workspace with a Fabric capacity has a diamond icon on the right side of its name. My Workspace by default is not assigned a Fabric capacity. You can assign a Fabric capacity to My Workspace but it's not recommended unless you are creating and running Fabric workloads in My Workspace. The suggested approach is to create a shared workspace for your team and assign a Fabric capacity to it (trial in your case) using a Licensing tab in wokspace settings. Once you do that you should see a diamond icon icon in the workspace name and you should be able to create any required Fabric items in that workspace. Hope that helps. You can lear more here Manage workspaces - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn.
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