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For the past several years, Business Intelligence has been the #1 top ranked IT priority for CIOs and business leaders according to Gartner. It is a very exciting time to be in the BI space, with massive investments from Microsoft in their 2016 wave of products specifically focused on this area. Not only are there major product releases on the horizon, specifically SharePoint & SQL 2016, but Power BI continues to release updates, new features, and content packs on a very regular basis.
Microsoft MVPs John White & Jason Himmelstein will attempt to keep you up to date on all of the latest and greatest BI changes every month. They will give some interesting tips & tricks, show fun features, bring on relevant guests, answer your questions, cover the News, and generally have a great time with this exciting topic.
Microsoft MVPs John White & Jason Himmelstein will attempt to keep you up to date on all of the latest and greatest BI changes every month. They will give some interesting tips & tricks, show fun features, bring on relevant guests, answer your questions, cover the News, and generally have a great time with this exciting topic.
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This is episode 330, recorded October 7th, 2026. On the road from Branson to St. Louis, John and Jason count down ten July and August highlights. They cover event-driven refresh for Materialized Lake Views, Activator business events, Eventstream workspace identity, TMDL view on the web, and the modern theme pane hitting GA.
This is episode 329, recorded live from the European Power Platform Conference in Copenhagen, where John and Jason dig into how Power Platform and Fabric fit together. Dataverse Fabric Link and its sharp edges, when to skip Dataverse for Fabric SQL, Rayfin as the dark horse, and whether low-code survives the AI era. Enjoy.
This is episode 328, recorded live from the European Power Platform Conference in Copenhagen, where John and Jason wrap the Fabric June 2026 feature summary. GPUs come to the data warehouse, business events get a coming-out party, Kafka goes GA, and Project Rayfin brings real apps to Fabric. Enjoy.
This is episode 327, recorded on June 8th, 2026, where John and Jason start in on the Fabric June 2026 feature summary. Build gets a recap, GitHub Enterprise lands in Git integration, OneLake gets storage tiers, AI functions move to GPT-5 mini, and Conversational Analytics arrives as its own section. Enjoy.
This is episode 326, recorded on May 7th, 2026, where John and Jason break down the Power BI & Fabric April 2026 Feature Summaries — DAX user-defined functions are here in preview, Direct Lake is flexing new modeling muscles, the Dataflows Gen1 community drama has a plot twist, Fabric Data Warehouse finally gets true transactional DDL, and VS Code integration in Fabric notebooks keeps leveling up. It's the April feature summary double-header.
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