BIFocal - Clarifying Business Intelligence

This is episode 317 recorded on January 21st, 2026, where John & Jason talk about news that came out in January 2026 for Power BI & Microsoft Fabric in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center and some interesting articles on the Fabric Blog. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 316 recorded on December 19th, 2025, where John & Jason talk about their predictions about 2024 & how they aged into 2025 and make their predictions for 2026 for Power BI & Microsoft Fabric. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 315 recorded on December 16th, 2025, where John & Jason talk about the Fabric November 2025 Feature Summary part 3 including updates to Data Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence, and Data Factory. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 314 recorded on December 15th, 2025, where John & Jason talk about the Fabric November 2025 Feature Summary part 2 including updates to Data Engineering & Data Science. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

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Episode 312 - Power BI November 2025 Feature Summary by John White & Jason Himmelstein

This is episode 311 recorded on November 25th, 2025, where John & Jason talk with Stephanie Bruno, Data Platform MVP & Data Witch, about the news coming out of Microsoft Ignite. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 310 recorded on November 21st, 2025, where John & Jason talk about the Power BI & Fabric Feature Summaries from October 2025 in preparation for the big news releases from Ignite in November.

This is episode 309 recorded on September 22nd, 2025, where John & Jason talk about the Power BI September 2025 Feature Summary including Standalone Copilot to default-on, Enhanced DAX Time Intelligence in Preview, Editing semantic models in the Power BI Service including create new is now Generally Available , TMDL view is now Generally Available, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 308 recorded on September 22nd, 2025, where John & Jason finish talking about the Microsoft Fabric September 2025 Feature Summary including the DataFlows Gen 2 Engine Overhaul and all that it entails, Connectivity updates, and Mirroring changes. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 307 recorded on September 19th, 2025, where John & Jason continue talking about the Microsoft Fabric September 2025 Feature Summary including the Data Agent improvements, Merge Transact SQL in Data Warehouse, new Real-Time Intelligence Features, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 306 recorded on September 19th, 2025, where John & Jason talk about the first half of the Microsoft Fabric September 2025 Feature Summary including the Fabric Multitasking UI Upgrade, Variable Libraries going GA, User Data Functions Going GA with Major Enhancements, the ability to query mirrored databases in spark notebooks, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 305 recorded on September 9th, 2025, where John & Jason drive across Missouri after the North America Collaboration Summit and discuss OneLake Security and other data topics in the news today. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 304 recorded on September 4th, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric August 2025 Feature Summary including a new Flat list view in Deployment pipelines, Bursting controls for Data Engineering workloads, new test capabilities for User Data Functions, the ability to server real-time predictions with ML model endpoints, several updates to Data Warehouse, Database tree in edit tile and AzMon data sources for RTI, the ability to use Python Notebooks to read/write to Fabric SQL Databases, Auto table creation on destination in copy job in Data Factory, and much, much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 303 recorded on August 21st, 2025, where John & Jason talk to Mike Carlo from Power BI Tips.com about Power BI & Microsoft Fabric, how his company is doing Workloads in Fabric, a debate about Lakehouses vs Warehouses, the Power Designer & Entelexos tools, and other fun topics. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 302 recorded on August 20th, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Power BI August 2025 Feature Summary including Copilot in Embedded Reports for SharePoint Online, edit your data model in the Power BI service, TMDL view enhancements, Semantic Model refresh templates with Fabric Data pipelines, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 301 recorded on August 20th, 2025, where John & Jason talk with friends and fellow podcasters Andrew Connell & Julie Turner of the Code.Deploy.GoLive show about how this podcast is AC's fault in the first place, what they are doing with their new podcast, community, and general shenanigans to celebrate the BIFocal.show's 300th episode. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 300 recorded on July 31st, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric July 2025 Feature Summary including tags in Fabric Domains, Fabric Data Agent integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio, enhancements to Activator, manual control of Auto-Refresh in pipelines, and CosmosDB in preview now in Fabric. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 299 recorded on July 21st, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Power BI July 2025 Feature Summary including expanded data sharing with Microsoft 365, Copilot updates, field parameters goes GA, Organizational Themes, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 298 recorded on July 9th, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric June 2025 Feature Summary including lots of Notebook updates in Data Engineering, lower cost for AI functions in Data Science, Copilot for RTI dashboards, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show