My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, for years I use #LiquidText for reading pdf documents, but I realize that I start using Obsidian/PDF++ more often (see the screenshot below). My question, what are you using to read and annotate technical pdf documents?

My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, my friend @datamozart.bsky.social and I will dissect all the Fabric news on our nxt #DataCenturials talk next Wednesday, 7:00 PM CET Join us here: www.youtube.com/live/QLsRjz1...

My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric, I'm happy and proud to share that I consider me being a full #Fabricator now as I have just added the #DP700 certification to the long waiting #DP600 cert😉🕺

My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, my latest blog article is here publish.obsidian.md/minceddata/Blo… it's not about all th#learningng from a fantasti#MVPsummitit, instead it's abou#datavisualizationon, even more boring it's about visualizing text ;-)

My Dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, this is my latest article. This one will cover all the ideas I publish on the official Fabric / PowerBI site but will put the ideas in a broader context: publish.obsidian.md/minceddata/B... Please, if you like the ideas, take the time to upvote them 🙏

My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends here you will find my latest article, it's about the placement of a semantic model with Direct Lake connection mode and how this affects the sharing of the model: publish.obsidian.md/minceddata/B... Enjoy reading!

My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, my first blog article in 2025 is not related to Fabric 😉 This article is about the Enhanced Refresh API and how this API and Power Automate can help to overcome the semantic model refresh duration limit: publish.obsidian.md/minceddata/B...

My dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends as the festive days come to an end, I started working on the slides for my first session in 2025 - it's about Power BI Metrics Sets. Using Excalidraw and the Microsoft Fabric Architecture icons, drawings like the one below become a breeze

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends how is your Sunday going. Mine is working fine, using a notebook to query a REST API, transforming the request result a little, storing the result as a delta table, accessing the semantic model, and visualizing this:

my dear #PowerBI friends, my latest article is not about #MicrosoftFabric, it's about #DataVisualization and adding the visual benefits of a pie chart to a bar chart, to finally get rid of some of these pie charts You will find the article here: www.minceddata.info/2023/11/12/t...

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, my new article is about creating a solution that monitors the on-premises data gateways (there will be more items considered in the future). Using #Python, Power BI's REST API, and a Direct Lake dataset: www.minceddata.info/2023/10/16/p... Enjoy reading

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, here you will find my first #data #architecture article. It's about the lakehouse, the medallion architecture, a notebook, sempy, and guess what - I'm also referencing #MicrosoftExcel Enjoy reading: www.minceddata.info/2023/10/09/t...

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, I'm a little happy that it's raining ... I use a notebook and #sempy (eg #DAX to @pandas_dev data frame) to create a simple #datavisualization using seaborn ... This is amazing! Next stop: learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/fabric...

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, #learning about #azuredevops now will be a valuable asset in the not-so-distant future. You can start your learning here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini...

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, I just synched a Notebook to a DevOps repo. I wish there would be folders, though. And before you ask: No, I'm not bored. It's a public holiday here in Germany and #thewomanilove is conducting a test from her studies

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends currently, there are 107 Tenant settings in the Admin portal, I expect more will pop up in the not-so-distant future. It's never too late to learn how the settings will impact your Fabric Tenant settings

my dear #MicrosoftFabric friends, the spark utilities that are available in Fabric notebooks simplify many things, my favorite function though: mssparkutils.credentials.getSecret here you will find the docs: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric...

my dear #PowerBI friends, here is one of the rare book reviews I do. But this book is special "Pro Power BI Architecture" (2nd edition) by Reza Rad. www.minceddata.info/2023/09/09/b... I consider it crucial for every Power BI Sherpa!

#deneb 1.6 for #PowerBI is now in alpha release phase. This is a big set of changes, so anyone who can help test/validate their existing work + new changes will be incredibly valuable :) Overview and details of how you can help can be found on my site: coacervo.co/deneb_alpha_...

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, I'm wondering if you consider the workings of the on-premises gateway still a secret, now that vnet gateway and personal connections are looming? Is a blog article (maybe a series) or even a session helpful?

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, if you want to map your Power BI estate and there are more than two workspaces, this article will help you to overcome timeouts powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/b...

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, this may be a small step for mankind, but it's a giant leap for us Power BI Sherpas: blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/s... Thank you team 👏

my dear #PowerBI, #MicrosoftFabric, and #AzureDatabricks friends, we are living in exciting times: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purvie...

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends here is my article about Power BI licensing in the age of Fabric https://www.minceddata.info/2023/08/19/power-bi-licensing-an-eternal-mystery-and-now-there-is-also-fabric-licensing/ Enjoy reading

Don't forget that CFS for DATA BASH is closing soon! Last date is August 25th! Don't miss it and visit our website https://databash.live #sqlfamily #azurefamily #pbifamily #fabricfamily

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, today I started collecting some of my answers at the #community site. The collection is here https://minceddata.notion.site/Community-solutions-Power-BI-30a191f7803044848ba6019b781ae115… I will add some older answers as well as new ones. Enjoy

New article: What are Capacities in #MicrosoftFabric? https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/7754/microsoft-fabric-capacities-and-cost-structure/ > learn more about the F-SKUs and their cost

my dear #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric friends, this article is about accessing a remote Azure SQL VM https://www.minceddata.info/2023/08/12/i-ve-turned-to-the-dark-side-dark-like-black-velvet-now-i-m-using-a-macbook-or-how-to-connect-to-a-local-sql-server-instance-that-is-not-that-local/

there is a lot I love about the image, but the one thing I love the most is the battery, if you are wondering about the memory utilization because I'm doing #PowerBI things on a virtual machine in parallel(s)