Many Power BI reports need near real-time data, but DirectQuery often slows down performance. In my latest blog, I explain how Hybrid Tables combine Import and DirectQuery to deliver both speed and freshness, with real test results and key considerations.
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Power BI Embedded URL Generation: A Step-by-Step Guide

Embedding Power BI reports into external applications has become an essential practice for organizations that want to provide seamless analytics experiences without requiring users to leave their existing workflows. By generating embedded URLs, developers and business users can integrate rich, interactive Power BI visuals directly into portals, websites, or custom applications.

Just because you CAN do something in Power BI because the tool will not stop you does not mean you SHOULD. Let's look at a few of these areas.

In this artilce we check out what are CROSSFILTER and RELATEDTABLE in DAX and what scenarios are they useful.

Also we check if they can be used interchangeably.

How do you let someone see their own performance while keeping everyone else’s identity hidden? In this article, we’ll show how identity masking can be implemented in Power BI.

Power BI gives you several ways to connect to data. Two options that are often confused are DirectQuery and Live Connection. They sound similar, but they have key differences. Choosing the right one matters for performance, flexibility, and how much control you have.

Learn how to organize Power BI measures into tables and folders for a cleaner, more structured model. Improve report usability and team collaboration.

Documenting a Power BI semantic model is crucial for ensuring clarity, maintaining consistency, and empowering users to understand the data they are analyzing. Yet, it's a task often relegated to the "I'll do it later" pile because it can be tedious and time-consuming.

What if you could generate a comprehensive, dynamic data dictionary directly inside your Power BI Desktop with just a few lines of DAX? Thanks to the new INFO.VIEW functions, you now can. This article will show you how to automatically document your tables, columns, measures, and relationships, turning your model into a self-documenting system.

Explore whether Power BI Copilot can organize measures into folders.

Join us in congratulating the winners of our first ever contest featuring Notebooks in Power BI!

Join us in congratulating the winners of our very first contest for Translytical Task Flows!

Keeping up the momentum from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Vienna, it’s time to join the Microsoft Fabric FabCon Global Hackathon!

Unleash the power of Microsoft Fabric to create real-world AI and analytics solutions. Whether you're a seasoned data professional or just starting out, this is your chance to innovate, learn, and win. What's on the line? Cash prizes valuing $10k!

Heatmaps are great for spotting trends at a glance, but Power BI doesn’t have a ready-made calendar heatmap. In this blog, I’ll walk through how to build a full-year version using a matrix, a calendar table, and some DAX tricks.

Writing Better DAX Starts with VAR
Ever noticed your DAX formulas taking longer to compute or becoming unreadable as they grow?

One of the easiest and most powerful optimizations you can apply in DAX is using VAR variables to store intermediate results.

In this article, we’ll walk through:

🧠 What VAR really does under the hood
🛠️ How using variables improves performance
✍️ Why your code becomes much easier to maintain
📊 A step-by-step example
🚀 Advanced tips using nested VARs