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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
455: What & Why is Power BI Accessibility?
Mike & Tommy are joined by Stephanie Bruno as we shed light to what to cover in Power BI accessible reporting, creating a checklist, and what to be mindful of…
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454: Looking at the Data Warehouse Roadmap
Mike & Tommy are joined by Brad Schact at Microsoft to review what is new & upcoming in the Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse. Get in touch: Send in your…
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453: Creature Comforts of Data Warehouse
Mike & Tommy are joined by Brad Schacht on the Data Warehouse team for Microsoft to dive into how to get eased and comfortable with the Warehouse experience in…
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452: Mailbag! Calculation Groups in Practice
Mike & Tommy discuss a mailbag all around the use cases for Calculation Groups, how often they use them, and how essential they are to reporting. Get in touch…
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451: Lets Talk SQL & New Features
With the major and new updates coming with the SQL Analytics Endpoint, how much should this shift our cognitive model on what SQL Endpoints mean for the…
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450: The End of Line for Datamarts
Mike, Seth, & Brad talk about the retirement of Datamarts in October and preparing for the new focus…
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449: Lakehouse or Warehouse?
Mike & Tommy are joined by Brad Schacht on the Microsoft team to see if they could get to the bottom of the issue of Lakehouses vs Warehouse. Get in touch…
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448: The Easier the Worse It is? Simple UI & Gotchas
Mike & Tommy break down the balance between having nice, easy UI in Fabric for complex features. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to…
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447: Translytical Is So Much More
Mike & Tommy unbox the new Translytical Task Flows in Microsoft Fabric and debunk what they are, and what they are not. They are more than writeback!…
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446: AI In Power BI - Are We Now Ready?
Mike & Tommy dive into another great article on SQLBI by Kurt Buhler and discuss what is our current state of AI, implementation for creators and consumers…
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445: The Evolution & Future of the Analyst
Mike & Tommy reflect once more (last time we promise!) how navigating the waters in the data space as never been more important…
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444: Mailbag! Optimal Power Bi Architecture in the Fabric Era
Mike & Tommy run through a GREAT question by one of our listeners on what to do with Power BI & Fabric development. In the Pre-Fabric era, as far as I know the…
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443: Mailbag! Future-Proofing Excel - Dashboards to Power BI
Mike & Tommy have a great conversation on how do we still build for Excel? Thanks for the mailbag! I’m building Excel sheets for my company to use as sales…
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442: What's Up with DAX?
Mike & Tommy review the relevance of DAX in the age of Fabric. Is it still #1 in Power Rankings?? Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to…
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441: What Is Your Numeracy?
Mike & Tommy talk about requirements for the business to understand their numbers. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by…
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440: A Reflection of 10 Years of Power BI
Mike & Tommy look back at working in Microsoft Power BI for over a decade. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to…
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439: Microsoft Fabric June 2025 Feature Draft
Mike & Tommy run through some of the major updates from the June 2025 updates and pick their favorites. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want…
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438: Mailbag! Who Owns the Connection? Managing and Chaos in Fabric Pieplines
Mike & Tommy run through another great mailbag question around how to get a handle on Fabric Data Connections and working with your team. Get in touch: Send in…
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437: Mailbag! Small Business with Power BI & Fabric
Mike & Tommy run through a great mailbag question on how do you deal with organizations not willing to take the plunge to Fabric. Get in touch: Send in your…
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436: Deep Dive on CI/CD Branching Strategies
Mike & Tommy are joined one last time by Mathias as they talk technical process and strategy. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to…
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435: DataOps is the Future of Power BI Teams
Mike & Tommy are joined by Mathias as they take on a hot take about if Data Ops is the future of BI Teams. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you…
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434: Top Down & Bottom Up for DevOps
Mike & Tommy are joined again by Mathias as they talk about running through approaches to getting DevOps started right. Get in touch: Send in your questions or…
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433: DevOps & You (and Your Team) (And Your Data)
Mike & Tommy are joined by Mathias Thierbach to talk about the heck is Data Ops. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by…
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432: Mailbag! We Just Want to View Reports
Mike & Tommy dive into a great mailbag from a listener on simplifying the report viewing experience. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us…
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431: What's New in Microsoft Fabric CI/CD
Mike & Tommy run through the latest developments with Git, CI/CD, and Data Ops at Microsoft Build 2025. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want…
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430: Build for Reports or Build for AI?
Mike & Tommy talk about the updates to Copilot and where do Semantic Model fit in. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by…
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429: Shortcut Mania! All the Use Cases of Fabric Shortcuts
Mike & Tommy break down all the major new updates to Microsoft Fabric Shortcuts from Build and how workflows and process are changing because of it... Get in…
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428: Unpacking Copilot Standalone for Power BI
Mike & Tommy digest the new Copilot standalone feature in Power BI service and what a potential rollout looks like. Get in touch: Send in your questions or…
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427: What Microsoft Build 2025 Means for You
Mike & Tommy break down the incredible announcements at Microsoft Build 2025 around Power BI & Microsoft Fabric and the potential implications moving forward…
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426: Introducing Advanced Analytics to Organizations
Mike & Tommy argue how to get organizations from bar charts to line charts to more "advanced analytics". Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you…
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425: Are We Still Self Service Or Drifting Back to Corporate BI?
Mike & Tommy dive into with all the tools and features in Microsoft Fabric, will Self Service still be a thing? Props to Marco Russo & Rui Romano for…
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424: TMDL & VSCode
Mike & Tommy discuss their best use cases of TMDL, Semantic Models, and VS Code. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by…
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423: Tools in Power BI
Mike & Tommy dive through a great article by SQLBI and Kurt Buhler on all the tools you can use outside of just Power BI…
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422: Max Performance in Power Query
Mike & Tommy are joined by the one and only Alex Powers again as they dive into getting the most bang for your buck in Power Query / Dataflows. Get in touch…
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421: Power Query with Mr. Powers - Skills to Know & Learn
Mike & Tommy are joined by the guru of the data GUI, Alex Powers! This is a head first dive into what SHOULD you know in Power Query, how far do you go down…
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420: Microsoft Fabric Half-Baked Ideas
Mike & Tommy run through what they consider current "Half-Baked" ideas in Microsoft Fabric & Power BI and what they would do to finish the job. Get in touch…
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419: Do We Design Lakehouses Differently Now?
Mike & Tommy consider if the advent of Semantic Modeling changes in Power BI & Microsoft Fabric should force us to change the way we design Lakehouses. Get in…
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418: What Does Education Look Like for a Data Scientist in the Age of Fabric?
Mike & Tommy are joined on an episode with Ginger Grant as we conclude our series on Fabric & Data Science - does AI, Fabric, and fast moving technology change…
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417: Is Now The Time for Data Scientists to Switch to Fabric?
Mike & Tommy are joined by Ginger Grant to dive into how do we get Data Scientists into the Fabric playground. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics…
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416: How Much should Data Scientists Care about Power BI?
Mike & Tommy are joined again by Ginger Grant talking about the world of Data Science & Power BI, and can the worlds collide? First half is about LLMs and…
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415: The Future of Data Science In Microsoft Fabric
Mike & Tommy are joined by Ginger Grant on diving into how integrated Data Science with Fabric, and where the gaps still are. Get in touch: Send in your…
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414: DAX and Semantic Models at FabCon
Mike & Tommy dive into a a great article by Marco Russo about what the future of DAX and Semantic Models after the FabCon announcements…
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413: FabCon Rundown 2025
Mike & Tommy try to run through all of the major announcements at the Fabric Conference in Las Vegas and making sense of it all. Get in touch: Send in your…
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412: Giving People Their Data - Subscriptions?
Mike & Tommy run through the relevance of Email Subscriptions and if they are still a great resource for organizations. Get in touch: Send in your questions or…
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411: Data Contracts & Microsoft Fabric
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 PowerBI.tips…
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410: Applying Agile Development in Power BI
Mike & Tommy discuss successes and traps for applying development processes to Business Intelligence. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want…
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409: Mailbag! Selling a Google Shop Company Power BI
Mike & dive through a great question on how to sell a Google Data StuTommydio (& Others) on Power BI. how can we sell PBI to a google shop company? How easy…
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408: The Fabric Toolbox Deep Dive
Mike & Tommy run through the Fabric Toolbox on GitHub. https://daxnoob.blog/2025/03/03/fabric-tools-dax-performance-testing/ Get in touch: Send in your…
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407: Pie Charts Are Not The End Of The World
Mike and Tommy dive through another stellar article by Kurt Buhler on the argument for and against pie charts…
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406: If I was Arun Ulag; Spending $100 on Fabric
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 PowerBI.tips…
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405: Naming Conventions in Microsoft Fabric
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 PowerBI.tips…
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404: MAILBAG! Managing Multiple Datasets in Power BI
Mike & Tommy go through a question from our mailbag on how to manage multiple datasets in Power BI. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us…
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403: Discussing Composite Models In Power BI (Again)
Where do composite models fit in Power BI with the introduction of Fabric and the growth of Managed Self Service? Mike & Tommy dive in to the state of…
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402: Mailbag! Poor Data Culture & Citizen Developer
Mike & Tommy answer a great mailbag question on what it means to be a Citizen Developer in an organization with a low Data Culture. Get in touch: Send in your…
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401: SQL Databases in Fabric - What, When, How?
Mike & Tommy dive into an amazing article by Data Mozart on SQL Databases: https://data-mozart.com/fabric-sql-database-what-why-and-how/ Get in touch: Send in…
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400: (400!) - Fabric Decision Guide - Choose a Data Store
Mike & Tommy reflect on 400 episodes and 4 years of Power BI, and dive into the best path forward for where to store your data…
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399: Dataflows Gen 1 vs. Microsoft Fabric SQL
With the onset of Microsoft Fabric SQL Databases, where do we put our Reference tables? Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss…
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398: When Are We Using Semantic Modeling in the Service?
Mike & Tommy have a heated debate on when to choose modeling our Semantic Models in the Service over other methods. Edit data models in service…
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397: Semantic Link Labs & Updates
Mike & Tommy run through major updates with semantic link labs and where to use it. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by…