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Explicit Measures Podcast
Hosted by Mike Carlo, and Tommy Puglia, the Explicit Measures Podcast is a Power BI focused show that is like being around a Power BI Pro’s Water Cooler. With so many available resources in the community that focuses on the “how” in Power BI (how to do Drill Through, how to use DAX, etc.,), the Explicit Measures Podcast is all around the WHY. Why use a particular feature, does it make sense for my users? Build the toolset, learn the how, and then come to the Podcast to the listen to the why in…
Episodes
- Explicit Measures Podcast
515: DAX Complexity & Power Query ETL Tips
Mike & Tommy dive into DAX complexity and Power Query ETL tips, tackling how to structure complex measures that balance readability and performance across…
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514: Help! How Do We CI/CD with TMDL + PBIR in Azure DevOps
Mike & Tommy tackle the messy reality of CI/CD for Power BI in the age of TMDL and PBIR, weighing whether Fabric Deployment Pipelines or Azure DevOps—or…
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513: Git Best Practices: Diff Noise & Naming
Mike & Tommy tackle Git best practices for Power BI teams, exploring how to reduce diff noise from slicer selections and matrix expansions, whether renaming…
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512: Publish to Web vs. Embedded – Security & Public-Facing Reports
Mike & Tommy tackle the critical security distinctions between Publish to Web and Power BI Embedded when exposing reports publicly, questioning whether…
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511: Mailbag! Scaling a Power BI Side Hustle – Marketing & Growth as a Family Man
Description: In this mailbag episode, we tackle a question from Jacob, a BI Manager and father of three who's been building his Power BI consulting side hustle…
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510: "What's Next?" – Building a 3-Year Power BI Roadmap After a Successful Rollout
Mike & Tommy dive into what comes after a successful Power BI rollout, exploring whether the next phase is about building more reports or maturing the data…
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509: Fabric Ideas That Stick & Reading What's Next
Mike & Tommy tackle how to submit Fabric ideas that actually get noticed, exploring what separates impactful feedback from noise, why most suggestions get…
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508: Kicking Off Fabric the Right Way
Mike & Tommy tackle the challenge of kicking off Fabric with a clean slate, exploring how to prevent model fragmentation and build a culture of shared semantic…
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507: AI-Assisted TMDL Workflow & Hot Reload
Mike & Tommy tackle AI-assisted TMDL workflows and the hot reload problem, exploring whether direct file editing with AI tools like Copilot is the future of…
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504: Living in a Direct Lake Only World
Are we only Direct Lake now? With Microsoft Fabric's ability to use Direct Lake with Semantic Models, where is the need for Import in Power BI, or rather where…
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506: Mailbag! Filter Overload
In this mailbag episode, we tackle a common challenge in Power BI report design: filter overload. When 15-20 slicers consume a third of your report page, are…
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505: Excel vs. Field Parameters
In this episode, we tackle a critical gap between Power BI's Field Parameters and Excel's live connection capabilities. Inspired by a mailbag submission from…
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503: Hiring the Report Developer
In this episode, Mike and Tommy explore whether the traditional "Report Developer" role still exists in the age of AI and Microsoft Fabric. They discuss what…
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502: Trusting In Microsoft Fabric
Mike & Tommy weigh in on whether Microsoft Fabric has earned the same trust as Power BI, exploring if it's truly dependable for small businesses and…
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501: Central BI & Workspace Strategies
Mike & Tommy explore how central BI teams should structure Microsoft Fabric workspaces, weighing medallion architecture patterns against deployment complexity…
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500: We Made It!
We made it 500! Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the…
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499: MAILBAG! Late Adopter Advantage? AI Readiness
Mike & Tommy explore whether being late to the data game is actually an advantage in the AI era, questioning if organizations building fresh Fabric…
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498: MAILBAG! Define the Problem Before Tools?
Mike & Tommy tackle the classic BI trap of falling in love with tools before understanding the problem, exploring why organizations rush to adopt Copilot…
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497: MAILBAG! Remote Fabric Jupyter & Local VSCode?
Mike & Tommy tackle a listener's question about connecting local VSCode to remote Fabric Jupyter kernels, exploring whether Fabric's architecture is…
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496: MAILBAG! Experience Overuse
Mike & Tommy tackle a listener's challenge with Microsoft's overuse of "experience" in Fabric, questioning whether calling notebooks, pipelines, and copy jobs…
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495: Do You Really Need Fabric?
Mike & Tommy dive into Microsoft Fabric licensing strategy, questioning whether organizations actually need Fabric or are falling into the same…
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494: MCP Your Fabric Data
Mike & Tommy explore Microsoft's new MCP servers for Power BI and Fabric, questioning whether teams should immediately enable these AI agent integrations or…
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493: AI Drives Microsoft Fabric Success
Mike & Tommy dive into whether Microsoft Fabric's success is driven by AI innovation or if it would thrive on its own merits, exploring how AI investments…
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492: The 2025 Fabric Made Up Awards
492: Fabric Made Up Awards Mike & Tommy hand out the first annual Fabric Made Up Awards, debating hilarious categories from "Most Likely to Be Disabled by IT"…
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491: Our Fabric Resolutions
Mike & Tommy start the new year with their own Microsoft Fabric Resolutions Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting…
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490: Revisiting Dataflows Gen 2
Mike & Tommy dive into Revisiting Dataflows Gen 2, exploring the tension between initial skepticism and current capabilities after major updates, and how…
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489: Why Fabric IQ Will Cause Friction
Mike & Tommy dive into the challenges posed by Microsoft's Fabric IQ, exploring the friction it creates within organizations as they redefine semantics. They…
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488: Fabric Gift Exchange
it is that time of year - the fabric gift exchange. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to…
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487: The Intelligence Developer
Mike & Tommy dive into the concept of the "Intelligence Developer," exploring whether this new role is emerging from shifts in Microsoft Fabric IQ and AI's…
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486: Backward Ontology
Mike & Tommy dive into "Backward Ontology," exploring whether Fabric IQ can facilitate a bottom-up approach to defining enterprise semantics. They discuss the…
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485: 1-Click Notebooks For Semantic Models
Mike & Tommy dive into 1-Click Notebooks, exploring how to start using them and the various customizations available. They discuss why these notebooks are…
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484: Data Governance in the Age of Fabric IQ
Mike & Tommy dive into "Data Governance in the Age of Fabric IQ," exploring whether Fabric IQ is truly the missing link for effective data governance or just…
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483: Let’s Talk Semantic Modeling on the Web
Mike & Tommy dive into semantic modeling on the web, exploring whether this new feature signals the decline of Power BI Desktop and discussing the implications…
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482: Microsoft Ignite & Fabric IQ
Mike & Tommy dive into the AMAZING new features and incredible impact they will have on businesses and our careers. First half is AI then we dive in to Fabric…
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481: From Fragmented Models to Unified Semantics
Mike & Tommy explore from fragmented import models to unified Fabric semantics, examining how to lead cultural change when teams resist moving from siloed…
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480: Kill Your Data Team - Why Product Teams Should Own Data
Mike & Tommy tackle the controversial idea of killing your data team, questioning whether centralized BI teams have become expensive bottlenecks, and exploring…
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479: Mailbag! Tracking App Usage at Scale
Mike & Tommy dive into tracking app usage at scale, exploring how education consultants can monitor dashboard engagement across 70 school districts and 9,000…
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478: MAILBAG! Untangling Workspace, Branching, and Artifact Chaos
Mike & Tommy untangle workspace, branching, and artifact chaos, exploring how to organize Fabric environments amid conflicting advice from Microsoft and…
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477: Mailbag! Start With Why
Mike and Tommy go through another great mailbag: I just finished listening to Adopting Copilot Standalone for Power BI - Ep.428. You may have addressed this…
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476: New Feature Announcement - Semantic Bridge
Mike & Tommy explore the new Tabular Editor feature Semantic Bridge, investigating how this technology bridges the gap between different semantic modeling…
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475: Source Control in BI - Necessary, Painful, or Both?
Mike & Tommy tackle source control in BI, exploring whether serialization formats like database.json and TMDL solve more problems than they create, and how…
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474: Modeling Without the Keyboard
Mike & Tommy dive into TMDL, Tabular Editor, and AI automation for semantic modeling, questioning why typing less gets so much attention when it's never the…
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473: DevEx for Pros - UDFs, TI, and the Tools That Stick
Mike & Tommy unpack developer experience for Power BI pros, exploring how UDFs, enhanced time intelligence, and specialized tools transform data modeling…
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472: Getting Started with Real Time Intelligence
Mike & Tommy break down Real Time Intelligence in Fabric, exploring what Power BI pros need to know to get started with this feature, and how to build…
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471: Data Modeling in Event Driven Architectures
Mike & Tommy dive into Data Modeling in Event-Driven Architectures, exploring how Power BI skills apply to Real-Time Analytics in Microsoft Fabric, and provide…
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470: Measure Total Shenanigans
Mike & Tommy finally weigh in on the measure total debate that's been heating up online, exploring why totals don't add up as expected, whether it's a DAX…
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469: PBIX or PBIP?
Mike & Tommy debate the new Power BI Project (PBIP) format, questioning whether source control and Git integration are worth the added complexity, and…
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468: Action Systems & AI Applications
Mike & Tommy are joined by Microsoft's Chris Schimdt on utilizing real time with actual applications in and outside Microsoft Fabric. Get in touch: Send in…
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467: What Is Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric?
Mike & Tommy explore Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric, questioning whether event-driven analytics is a genuine business need or just technical hype…
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466: Data Agents & Semantic Models
Mike & Tommy dive more into Data Agents... but are Semantic Models the preferred data source? Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to…
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465: Mailbag! More Email Subscription Use Cases
Mike & Tommy have another great mailbag from YOU on utilizing Power BI subscriptions being proactive and efficient. Get in touch: Send in your questions or…
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464: Is Microsoft Fabric Actually Business Intelligence?
Wow! we have a doozy of an episode today. Mike & Tommy ask the question if Microsoft Fabric the evolution of business intelligence or something different…
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463: The Impact of User Defined Functions in DAX
We are talking about the buzz! Mike and Tommy wrap their heads around User Defined Functions (UDFs) in DAX and what implementation looks like. Get in touch…
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462: Microsoft Fabric Feature Pyramid
Mike & Tommy rank the BEST features in the Microsoft Data Platform, from level 1 the TOP to what is essential to what they do. Get in touch: Send in your…
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461: FabCon Vienna Draft!
Mike & Tommy dive into the major updates from FabCon Vienna and what it means for Power BI & Microsoft Fabric users alike…
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460: Mailbag! Composite Models vs Reusable Datasets: Are We Sending Mixed Messages?
Mike & Tommy go through a great mailbag question on composite models and reusable models, along with how this changes in Fabric. Whoa! I think I'm triggered…
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459: Initial Impressions of Data Agents
Mike & Tommy give their thoughts on the state of Microsoft Fabric Data Agents. https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/new-in-fabric-data-agent-data-source-instr…
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458: The Fabric Magic Wand
Stephanie joins Mike and Tommy to talk about those "magic wand" moments everyone experiences while working with Power BI. After polling social media, Stephanie…
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457: Planning Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity
Mike & Tommy are joined by Stephanie once again diving into the gotchas of the new Microsoft Fabric Capacity SKUs, how rolling it out differs than Power BI…
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456: Rolling Out & Managing Accessibility; - Adoption & Methods
Tommy & Mike are joined by Stephanie Bruno tackling how to provide Accessibility in Power BI to your organization. Get in touch: Send in your questions or…