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January 9, 2026
Mike and Tommy hand out their completely made-up Fabric Awards for 2025 — from 'Most Likely to Be Disabled by IT' to 'This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things.' Plus, Marco Russo confirms what they've been saying all along: notebooks win.
November 12, 2025
Mike and Tommy tackle the messy reality of source control in BI—branching, merging, TMDL, save-to-folder, and whether BI teams are ready for real git workflows. Plus, the Microsoft SQL Community Conference gets announced.
October 22, 2025
Mike and Tommy debate the big question: should you migrate from PBIX to PBIP? They break down who benefits most from the new project format, whether it's too developer-heavy for business users, and what the migration path looks like.
June 27, 2025
Mike, Tommy, and guest Mathias Thierbach unpack CI/CD branching strategies — Git Flow, GitHub Flow, GitLab Flow, and trunk-based development — exploring how they apply to Microsoft Fabric, the tooling gaps that remain, and practical advice for teams just getting started with source control.
June 25, 2025
Tommy, Mike, and guest Mathias Thierbach unpack what DataOps means for Power BI and Fabric teams — from source control and automated testing to scaling with junior developers. The trio debates whether AI is the key to rapid DataOps adoption and why the click-and-drag approach to Fabric projects won't survive long-term.
June 18, 2025
Mike and Tommy are joined by Mathias Thierbach to unpack what DevOps really means for Power BI and Fabric teams — beyond just CI/CD. They cover why source control is the starting line, where automated testing fits (and why Microsoft tooling is still thin), plus how PBIR/PBIP and modern file formats unlock collaboration at scale.
July 26, 2024
Mike and Tommy break down how the Power BI Skills Matrix concept translates to the Fabric era and why skills clarity matters when teams ramp up. They also cover the July 2024 updates for Fabric and Power BI, plus a practical beat-from-the-street on PBIP, GitHub, and publishing.
March 1, 2024
TMDL is a promising step toward real source control for Power BI semantic models—human-readable files you can diff, review, and deploy. In Episode 298, Mike, Tommy, and Seth unpack what’s changing in Desktop and how Copilot can speed up measure documentation.
October 27, 2023
Ep. 262 is a practical walkthrough of bringing Azure DevOps + Git into your Power BI / Fabric workflow—using PBIP as the source format—so deployments become repeatable, reviewable, and less fragile as your content moves from dev to prod.
June 30, 2023
In Ep. 228, Mike, Tommy, and Seth break down PBIP (the Power BI Project format) and what it unlocks for real Git workflows: diffs, pull requests, and repeatable CI/CD. They also discuss Fabric Git integration and why preview features still demand cost and governance discipline.
June 2, 2023
In Ep. 220, Mike, Tommy, and Seth break down Git integration for Power BI in Microsoft Fabric—what version control changes for BI teams, how branches and pull requests map to report development, and the simplest way to start adopting source control without slowing delivery.