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Jun 24, 2026 · Microsoft Fabric

Direct Lake fallback: why your "instant" report just got slow

A walkthrough of the conditions that silently push Direct Lake semantic models back to DirectQuery — and the monitoring habits that catch it before your users do.

#directlake #fabric #performance
Jun 12, 2026 · DAX

Context transition, explained with a grocery receipt

The one DAX concept that trips up every analyst moving from Excel. No jargon, one analogy.

#dax #fundamentals
May 29, 2026 · Certification

PL-300 → DP-600 → DP-700: an honest study order

Which certification to take first, what overlaps, and where each exam actually gets hard.

#certification #career

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I work in the Microsoft data and business intelligence space — building semantic models, Fabric lakehouses, and the reports people actually open every morning. This site is where I write down what I learn, mostly so future-me stops Googling the same DAX pattern twice.

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