Tag: Data Engineering
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Episode 326 – Microsoft Fabric & Power BI April 2026 Feature Summary
Direct Lake gets calculated columns, DAX UDFs improve, transactional DDL lands in Data Warehouse — John and Jason cover the April 2026 double feature live from Cologne.
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Episode 323 – Microsoft Fabric March 2026 Feature Summary (Part 1)
John and Jason unpack the Fabric March 2026 summary: OneLake Catalog MCP, selective branching, CLI v1.5, Runtime 2.0, and more.
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Episode 321 – Microsoft Fabric February 2026 Feature Summary
Fresh off back-to-back recording sessions — and a working trip together in Hawaii that apparently didn’t leave enough time to actually record a podcast — John and Jason are back […]
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Episode 319 – Fabric January 2026 Feature Summary
Jason and John are back to tackle the Microsoft Fabric January 2026 Feature Summary. And what a summary it is. From Microsoft’s acquisition of Osmos to bring agentic AI data […]
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Episode 317 – January 2026 News Catch-Up: Hidden Gems in the M365 Admin Center
Welcome back from the holiday break! Jason and John are kicking off 2026 with a news roundup episode that caught them by surprise. Where did they find some of the […]
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Episode 316 – 2024 Recap and 2026 Predictions: Looking Back and Looking Forward
January 14, 2026 Welcome to what might be the most fun episode of the year! Jason and John are kicking off 2026 by doing something they haven’t done since the […]
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Episode 314 – Microsoft Fabric November 2025 Feature Summary Part 2
Welcome back to Part 2 of the BIFocal Podcast’s coverage of Microsoft Fabric’s November 2025 feature announcements! Building on Episode 313‘s comprehensive look at platform updates and databases, Jason and […]
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Episode 311 – Microsoft Ignite 2025: What Actually Matters for Fabric Pros
Microsoft Ignite has always walked a line between forward-looking vision and carefully crafted messaging. It’s rarely the place for deep technical dives—it’s where Microsoft lays out its next 18 to […]
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Episode 310 – October 2025 Feature Summaries
Welcome to what Jason and John are calling a “Back to the Future Style podcast” – where the hosts time travel back to October to cover feature releases they missed […]
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Episode 304 – Fabric August 2025: Bursting Controls, Event Schema Registry & The T-SQL Magic Command
Recording early morning before hitting the road to Branson’s Collaboration Summit (with eight hours of car time ahead), Jason and John tackled the Microsoft Fabric August 2025 feature summary—a surprisingly […]
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Episode 298 – Fabric June 2025: Notebooks Get Variable Libraries & Event Streams Level Up
Recording on a somber note following devastating flash floods in nearby Kerrville, Texas, Jason and John nevertheless pressed forward with the Microsoft Fabric June 2025 feature summary—a release heavy on […]
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Episode 293 – Microsoft Fabric March 2025 Feature Summary (Part 2)
May 7, 2025 John and Jason are back for Part 2 of their deep dive into the Microsoft Fabric March 2025 feature summary, and folks, there’s still a mountain of […]
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Episode 292: Microsoft Fabric March 2025 Feature Summary – Variable Libraries, One Lake Security, and Game-Changing Data Functions
Recorded April 22nd, 2025 The latest Microsoft Fabric feature summary is substantial, with the March 2025 updates covering everything from revolutionary variable libraries to the long-awaited One Lake Security. Hosts […]
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