Christian Wade
@_christianWade
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Group product manager for Fabric/Power BI at Microsoft. Coined the term "clicky clicky draggy droppy data analysis". Tweets are my own.
Joined November 2009
This is what we look like when doing #ClickyClickyDraggyDroppy over massive datasets in Power BI 😀
.@_christianWade I liked your catchphrase so much, I made a GIF. #PASSSummit2020 #PASSSummit #SQLPASS
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Data fragmentation slows insights and undermines AI. The solution: an open and interoperable lakehouse. #MicrosoftFabric + @Snowflake make it possible to work on a single copy of data across both platforms without complexity or duplication. https://t.co/9etd41FtnY
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snowflake.com
Address data fragmentation with an open lakehouse, using Apache Iceberg to unify data silos and enable governed interoperability with Microsoft OneLake.
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Please take note of @cwebb_bi on this!!!
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How to use Power BI MCP servers for agentic development of semantic models. Pros, cons, tips, and demonstrations. Article and link below.
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You may have heard that "PBIR format will be the new standard" -- there's some confusion about this... The .pbix format is not changing. PBIR is the underlying metadata for reports. If you use .pbix, there's no effect for you. If you use PBIP, you'll see this in various ways
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Agent ready #PowerBI semantic modeling MCP for chat with your data (consumption) and creation. Enjoy! https://t.co/9efUoGOQGk
powerbi.microsoft.com
Ten years ago, Power BI entered the market and transformed how businesses interact with data. Before self-service BI, business users waited days, sometimes weeks, for IT teams to build reports and...
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Check out the brand new official Power BI modeling MCP server. Welcome to the future of Power BI #SemanticModels 🤯🤯🤯 @RuiRomano
https://t.co/uHqYX4eZSS
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The November 2025 Power BI feature update brings several important announcements and enhancements across the platform. Key highlights include the deprecation of R and Python visuals in the Embed for...
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#PowerBI semantic models as accelerators for AI-enabled consumption from @_christianWade
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As data volumes grow exponentially, Power BI customers demand AI-driven analytical solutions that scale to petabytes, are secure, governed, and easy to manage. Power BI semantic models, backed by...
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Exciting day at #MSIgnite - announcing #MicrosoftFabric IQ, GA of #SQLServer 2025, Azure HorizonDB for Postgres and so much more:
azure.microsoft.com
Read announcements from Azure Data at Microsoft Ignite 2025, including Azure HorizonDB, Fabric IQ, SQL Server 2025, Azure DocumentDB, Fabric Databases, and Fabric data agents.
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Running notebooks against a Fabric Cluster from VSCode? No Problem with the latest version of the #FabricStudio extensions for VSCode - you dont even need to have Python installed! Give it a try and let me know what you think #MicrosoftFabric #Fabric #DataEngineering
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Calling DAX UDFs from #PowerBI Copilot
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An example showing how Copilot can call a DAX UDF that does ABC analysis
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Power BI semantic models as accelerators for AI-enabled consumption https://t.co/iw4QRfQ2Nx
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As data volumes grow exponentially, Power BI customers demand AI-driven analytical solutions that scale to petabytes, are secure, governed, and easy to manage. Power BI semantic models, backed by...
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Data is the fuel that powers AI. As Satya in our Q1 earnings, "#MicrosoftFabric revenue grew 60%, faster than any other data and analytics platform in the industry and we now have 28,000 paid customers.” Thank you to our customers and community for shaping the future of Fabric
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FY26 Q1 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft
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Big things coming at #MSIgnite! ✅ #PowerBI Semantic models are about to get way more interesting ✅ Microsoft ❤️Postgres ✅ Real-time analytics at scale with #MicrosoftFabric and much, much, more! Join me in SF or online:
ignite.microsoft.com
Microsoft Ignite - Get the edge you need to drive impact in the era of AI. Bolster your knowledge, build connections, and explore emerging technologies.
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Power BI Calendar Overhaul: Calendar-Based Time Intelligence with Jeroen ter Heerdt is live now! * Support custom calendars like 445 454, etc. * Week based rollups * Proper DAX function support * Better perf than the old time intelligence DAX functions due to significant
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#Fiscal or #Financial #DAX #calculation in #PowerBI and #DAX using the new calendar options is explained in my today's video watch it here: https://t.co/3DfoaHRWid
#DataAnalytics #Analytics #BusinessIntelligence #MicrosoftFabric #Excel #Tech
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Can an AI agent format Power BI reports? It takes some heavy investment in context, but yes. From core to custom visuals, thin report measures and visual calculations (even SVGs)... Here's one example walking through a few simple scenarios.
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Power BI app Copilot: AI scoped to the curated content in an app (Preview) provides a targeted experience for end users within the context of a subject area https://t.co/e7BUiBiWuA via @MSPowerBI
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Announcing Power BI app Copilot, now in preview. With app-scoped Copilot, users can search for reports in an app plus ask questions and get connected with answers based on a report in an app. App...
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So many new Copilot updates this month. Here are some I can't stop using.
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