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January 21, 2026
Mike and Tommy unpack a viral LinkedIn article where a consultant saved a client $57,000 per year by moving from Fabric F64 to Premium Per User — sparking a bigger conversation about when Fabric actually makes sense, licensing confusion, and the tipping points that justify the investment.
December 31, 2025
Mike and Tommy unpack Fabric IQ's new ontology feature and why it will create friction in organizations—from cultural resistance to political turf wars over data definitions. They explore MCP vs. IDE workflows and debate whether businesses are mature enough for enterprise-wide semantic alignment.
December 24, 2025
Mike and Tommy explore the emerging 'Intelligence Developer' role—a new position shaped by AI and Fabric IQ that shifts focus from metrics to dimensions and data governance. They also recap the biggest SQL, Fabric, and Power BI developments of 2025.
December 19, 2025
Mike and Tommy ask the big question: who in your organization is going to build the Fabric IQ ontology? They explore a 'backwards' approach—starting from semantic models you already have—and debate whether the BI team, data governance, or a new role should own it.
December 12, 2025
Mike and Tommy explore what data governance looks like in the Fabric IQ era, unpacking how ontology changes the governance conversation from policing data to defining business meaning. Plus, notebooks in pipelines now support service principals and workspace identity.
May 20, 2025
Mike and Tommy debate whether the Power BI and Fabric ecosystem is still truly self-service or quietly drifting back toward corporate BI, exploring semantic model-to-lakehouse sync, data contracts, managed self-service, and where the line between central IT and business users really falls.
April 2, 2025
Mike and Tommy dive into data contracts and how they apply to Power BI and Microsoft Fabric environments. They explore why formalizing expectations between data producers and consumers is key to building trustworthy, scalable data platforms.
February 2, 2024
It's mailbag time. In Ep. 290, Mike, Tommy, and Seth answer listener questions on adopting Power BI in a Google/BigQuery environment, surviving terminology changes like 'dataset' to 'semantic model', and balancing process vs. technology as tools evolve.
July 14, 2023
In Ep. 232, Mike, Tommy, and Seth break down the symbiotic relationship between data governance and data storytelling—why trust, ownership, and clear lineage are what turn dashboards into decisions.
June 28, 2023
In Ep. 227, Mike, Tommy, and Seth explore what Fabric adoption really requires: governance, ownership, and cost visibility—not just new tech. They debate OneLake discoverability and the ‘lakehouse per dataset’ question, then land on a practical distinction: data quality is the condition of your data, while data governance is the operating model that keeps it trustworthy.