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Month: November 2023

Pulling XMLA-Modified Power BI Datasets into Source Control

Published 2023-11-01 by Kevin Feasel

Marc Lelijveld has a fix:

Have you ever found yourself stuck with a modified Power BI dataset, thanks to those well-intentioned but troublesome changes you made through the XMLA endpoint? Does that sound familiar to you? What seemed like a convenient solution quickly turned into a frustrating challenge when you encountered the error message in the Power BI Service.

You wanted to seamlessly continue your development journey in Power BI Desktop, avoiding the need for a full data refresh or just quickly making that one small change, but now hitting a roadblock when trying to download PBIX file. The error message declared that your data model had been modified with the XMLA endpoint. But now, with Git integration you can overcome this challenge!

Read on to see how.

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An Overview of the Current State of Microsoft Fabric

Published 2023-11-01 by Kevin Feasel

Paul Andrew pulls no punches:

Despite playing with different parts of the Fabric ecosystem for a long time. Nothing ever prepares you for the challenges and “quirks” faced when building a solution for real. In this post I’ll call out some of the pain points we’ve faced and features of the product still requiring improvement. Excluding some of the obvious gaps in the product like security, that we know to be coming.

Read on for Paul’s analysis on what Fabric is currently missing, but as you do read it, keep in mind that this is still in public preview and even after it goes GA, Microsoft will continue development on Fabric.

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