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August 18, 2026
Anonymous data access lets a Rayfin app take a public write — a contact form, a game score, an outage report — and store it in a Fabric SQL database without an Entra account. Mike ranks that capability third: the case for Fabric apps is still that the data stays in Fabric, and that an agent can build and fix the app.
August 6, 2025
Mike and Tommy unpack translytical task flows in Power BI—a feature that goes far beyond the Gartner buzzword. Plus news on OneLake as a source for COPY INTO and a new Fabric Notebooks competition.
May 28, 2025
Mike and Tommy unpack Microsoft Build 2025 announcements through a practical lens — from open mirroring and SQL database tooling to the new standalone Copilot for Power BI. The main topic: a role-play exercise on how you'd actually roll out Copilot standalone in your organization.
February 26, 2025
Mike and Tommy dive deep into SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric — what they are, why they matter, and how to get started. They also cover the new Fabric Quotas feature and debate which social media platform they'd keep if they could only have one.
February 14, 2025
Mike and Tommy dig into what it means for Power BI semantic models to move ‘onto the web’, from editing models directly in the service to live editing Direct Lake models from Desktop. They also connect the dots on governance, versioning, and cost—so you can adopt the new workflows without breaking your production reporting.
January 10, 2025
Mike and Tommy break down what Fabric SQL Databases are, where they fit in the Fabric ecosystem, and the scenarios where a relational database is the right tool instead of a Lakehouse. They also cover how this changes your architecture choices and what to watch for as the feature matures.