You can use Power BI Desktop to live edit Direct Lake semantic models, improving your data modeling experience and allowing export to Power BI Project (PBIP) for professional development workflows.
» Read more We recently made a significant update to the Direct Lake documentation. Direct Lake accelerates time to data-driven decisions by unlocking incredible performance directly against OneLake, without the need to manage costly, time-consuming data refreshes for large volumes of data in OneLake.
» Read more Explore the latest features of the ALM Toolkit! Our new update adds coloring support for TMDL, allowing you to view tabular model metadata in a user-friendly, YAML-like syntax. Enhance your Power BI experience and manage your semantic models with ease by adopting the ALM Toolkit into your workflow.
» Read more We are happy to announce that the Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL) has now reached General Availability (GA)!
» Read more We are excited to announce you can now write DAX queries with DAX query view for web from published semantic models in the workspace.
» Read more Boost your productivity in DAX query view with Copilot to write and explain DAX queries.
» Read more We are happy to announce a new Direct Lake semantic model property to control Direct Lake behavior.
» Read more As part of our continued tooling improvements, we have enhanced the experience for creating Direct Lake semantic models in Microsoft Fabric. This applies to semantic models created by clicking the New semantic model button from the Lakehouse.
» Read more With the model explorer available for editing data models in the Power BI service these semantic models, both Direct Lake and those in import or DirectQuery, not only get visibility of their semantic model in a tree view but also can create calculation groups!
» Read more DAX query view, released in public preview last month, in the December 2023 Power BI Desktop release has exciting updates including the new INFO DAX functions and improvements to the Update model CodeLens.
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