Chris Webb

Snowflake query tags in Power BI and Workspace Monitoring Link a Snowflake query to the Power BI operation that generated it

Snowflake query tags in #PowerBI and Workspace Monitoring blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/10/05/s...

Linking Fabric Warehouse SQL queries and Spark jobs to the Capacity Metrics App The OperationId can be used to find details of a TSQL query or Spark job

Linking Fabric Warehouse SQL queries and Spark jobs to the Capacity Metrics App blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/09/28/l...

Finding Power BI queries and refreshes that have been throttled with Workspace Monitoring The capacityThrottlingMs metric tells you if a query or refresh has been throttled

Finding #PowerBI queries and refreshes that have been throttled using Workspace Monitoring blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/09/21/f...

How to get the details of Power BI operations seen in the Capacity Metrics App The OperationId column can be used in Workspace Monitoring queries

How to get the details of #PowerBI operations seen in the Capacity Metrics App blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/09/14/h...

What happens when Power BI Direct Lake models hit guardrails? It depends on the type of Direct Lake model but you will either get warnings or errors and the model will fall back to DirectQuery if it can

What happens when #PowerBI Direct Lake models hit guardrails? blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/09/07/w...

Performance testing Power BI Direct Lake models revisited: ensuring worst-case performance You now need to do a refresh of type clearValues followed by a full refresh to page all data out of memory for a Direct Lake model

Performance testing #PowerBI Direct Lake models revisited: ensuring worst-case performance blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/08/31/p...

Are you talking about Power Query? If so, it’s a mistake to think of each step being executed one after the other and therefore it’s usually not possible to find out how much time a single step takes.

Useful community tools and resources for #PowerBI and #MicrosoftFabric blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/08/24/u...

#PowerBI Copilot, AI Instructions and DAX query templates blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/08/17/p...

Power BI Copilot, AI Instructions and DAX measure definitions Adding measure definitions to Copilot AI Instructions helps users understand how measures work

#PowerBI Copilot, AI Instructions and DAX measure definitions blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/08/10/p...

Why Power BI Copilot seems to work better in Desktop than in the Service Changes to AI Instructions are not always applied immediately after publishing

Why do #PowerBI Copilot AI Instructions seem to work better in Desktop than in the Service? blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/08/03/w...

Power BI Copilot, AI Instructions and visualisation guidelines Control which visuals Copilot uses in responses

#PowerBI Copilot, AI Instructions and visualisation guidelines blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/07/27/p...

Power BI Copilot, AI Instructions and semantic model relationships Learn how Copilot works with measures and columns on different tables

#PowerBI Copilot, AI Instructions and semantic model relationships blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/07/20/p...

Power BI Copilot, AI Instructions and dealing with ambiguity Make Copilot ask for clarification instead of guessing so often

#PowerBI Copilot, AI Instructions and dealing with ambiguity blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/07/13/p...

Power BI Copilot, AI Instructions and preventing the use of implicit measures Stop Copilot from aggregating data itself

#PowerBI Copilot, AI Instructions and preventing the use of implicit measures blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/07/06/p...

Data validation in Power BI Copilot AI Instructions Helping users enter valid values for filters in their prompt can improve the Copilot user experience

Data validation in #PowerBI Copilot AI Instructions blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/06/29/d...

Power BI Copilot AI Instructions: helping users understand the scope of the data Instruct Copilot to tell the user what data is and isn't present in a semantic model

#PowerBI Copilot AI Instructions: helping users understand the scope of the data blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/06/22/p...

Had an amazing time at #SQLBits as always. Many thanks to the organisers, helpers, speakers, sponsors and of course the attendees!

Join the Fabric User Research Panel! blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/06/17/j...

Grouping and filtering in Power BI Copilot AI Instructions Specify the columns returned in results and filters on rows

Grouping and filtering in #PowerBI Copilot AI Instructions blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/06/15/g...

Requiring selections on the Date dimension in Power BI Copilot AI Instructions Use AI Instructions to make sure a user always selects a date, month or year

Requiring selections on the Date dimension in #PowerBI Copilot with AI Instructions blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/06/08/r...

Finding reports and semantic models easily with Power BI Copilot Search The new Copilot Search feature works better than Power BI's existing search

Finding reports and semantic models easily with #PowerBI Copilot Search blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/06/01/f...

Generating sample data with Copilot in Fabric Dataflows Gen2 Use Copilot to generate tables of sample data

Generating sample data with Copilot in #MicrosoftFabric Dataflows Gen2 blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/05/25/g...

Timeseries smoothing - EXPLORATIONS IN DATA STORYTELLING WITH POWER BI Quite often when exploring data within Power BI, we might want to visualise timeseries data, only to be met with an unsightly jagged line: We might be tempted to smooth it by changing to weekly or mon...

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Performance implications of different ways of fully expanding a Power BI matrix visual Using "expand to next level" can improve performance

Performance implications of different ways of fully expanding a #PowerBI matrix visual blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/05/18/p...

Finding events linked to a specific Power BI visual in Fabric Workspace Monitoring Use ID from the "Copy Object Name" feature to filter events

Finding events linked to a specific #PowerBI visual in Fabric Workspace Monitoring blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/05/11/f...

Documenting Power BI semantic models with Fabric Data Agents Use Data Agents to generate documentation and understand the dependencies between DAX calculations

Documenting #PowerBI semantic models with Fabric Data Agents blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/05/04/d...

Power BI Copilot Deep Dive | LinkedIn Everyone is excited about AI and the impact it can have on data and analytics, and in Power BI that promise is being delivered on with Copilot. In this session you'll learn everything you need to know...

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Join us for a Power BI Copilot Deep Dive session where we explore how AI is reshaping data and analytics inside Power BI.

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Semantic Model Refresh in Fabric: Beyond the Defaults Optimise Power BI semantic models with advanced refresh options in Fabric, utilising data pipelines and semantic link for enhanced control and efficiency.

I wrote a blog about semantic model refresh options in #Fabric #powerbi, please read and share! www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/blog/semanti...

Two new Power BI/Power Query books Book reviews for "Power Query beyong the user interface" and "Architecting Power BI Solutions in Fabric"

Two new #PowerBI / #PowerQuery books blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2025/04/27/t...