Eugene Meidinger
@sqlgene.com
Data training for busy people.
Working on automated evaluations for LLMs and Power BI
November 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Working on automated evaluations for LLMs and Power BI
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[BLOG] The Power BI modeling MCP server in plain English
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The Power BI modeling MCP server in plain English - SQLGene Training
Microsoft has released a Power BI modeling MCP server. The responses have ranged from “This is awesome!” to “I have no idea what any of this means”. So, in this article, I hope to explain what this me...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
[BLOG] The Power BI modeling MCP server in plain English
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Using the Power BI modeling MCP server, I was able to:
1) Generate shared dimensions from existing fact tables
2) Add all the relationships
3) Wrap 5 existing measures in KEEPFILTERS
30-60 minutes of work in just a few minutes. I think people don't realize how useful this will be for mundane tasks
1) Generate shared dimensions from existing fact tables
2) Add all the relationships
3) Wrap 5 existing measures in KEEPFILTERS
30-60 minutes of work in just a few minutes. I think people don't realize how useful this will be for mundane tasks
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Using the Power BI modeling MCP server, I was able to:
1) Generate shared dimensions from existing fact tables
2) Add all the relationships
3) Wrap 5 existing measures in KEEPFILTERS
30-60 minutes of work in just a few minutes. I think people don't realize how useful this will be for mundane tasks
1) Generate shared dimensions from existing fact tables
2) Add all the relationships
3) Wrap 5 existing measures in KEEPFILTERS
30-60 minutes of work in just a few minutes. I think people don't realize how useful this will be for mundane tasks
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Excellent read by @den.dev 👏👏
You Need To Become A Full Stack Person
https://den.dev/blog/full-stack-person/
You Need To Become A Full Stack Person
https://den.dev/blog/full-stack-person/
You Need To Become A Full Stack Person · Den Delimarsky
AI tools are commoditizing single-skill roles. The future belongs to people who can think, build, and ship across the entire stack.
den.dev
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Excellent read by @den.dev 👏👏
You Need To Become A Full Stack Person
https://den.dev/blog/full-stack-person/
You Need To Become A Full Stack Person
https://den.dev/blog/full-stack-person/
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Ignite is really heavily focussing on Agents and AI. I'm not necessarily against it (I've done a bit of work with SSMS Copilot for instance), but to put so much focus on it does distract a bit from the regular tools a very large portion of people work with on a daily basis. #msignite
November 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Ignite is really heavily focussing on Agents and AI. I'm not necessarily against it (I've done a bit of work with SSMS Copilot for instance), but to put so much focus on it does distract a bit from the regular tools a very large portion of people work with on a daily basis. #msignite
"Which is why we always tells students who ask for advice, 'Step 1. Build an illegal monopoly.'"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq-2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq-2...
Demis Hassabis & Josh Woodward tell us why Gemini 3.0 puts Google in front of the A.I. race
YouTube video by Hard Fork
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November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"Which is why we always tells students who ask for advice, 'Step 1. Build an illegal monopoly.'"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq-2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq-2...
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🎉 SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric is now Generally Available! 🎉
The preview icon has disappeared in my Fabric tenant. It’s official! Build modern OLTP apps with this SaaS database.
👉 Book of News: aka.ms/book-of-news
#MicrosoftFabric #SQL #SQLDatabaseInFabric #AI #MSIgnite
The preview icon has disappeared in my Fabric tenant. It’s official! Build modern OLTP apps with this SaaS database.
👉 Book of News: aka.ms/book-of-news
#MicrosoftFabric #SQL #SQLDatabaseInFabric #AI #MSIgnite
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🎉 SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric is now Generally Available! 🎉
The preview icon has disappeared in my Fabric tenant. It’s official! Build modern OLTP apps with this SaaS database.
👉 Book of News: aka.ms/book-of-news
#MicrosoftFabric #SQL #SQLDatabaseInFabric #AI #MSIgnite
The preview icon has disappeared in my Fabric tenant. It’s official! Build modern OLTP apps with this SaaS database.
👉 Book of News: aka.ms/book-of-news
#MicrosoftFabric #SQL #SQLDatabaseInFabric #AI #MSIgnite
Working on something
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Working on something
This is awesome!
Running notebooks against a Fabric Spark Cluster from VSCode?
No Problem with the latest version of the #FabricStudio extensions for VSCode - you dont even need to have Python installed!
Give it a try and let me know what you think
#MicrosoftFabric #Fabric #DataEngineering
No Problem with the latest version of the #FabricStudio extensions for VSCode - you dont even need to have Python installed!
Give it a try and let me know what you think
#MicrosoftFabric #Fabric #DataEngineering
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
This is awesome!
That feeling when you are considering running comprehensive benchmarks on how well each LLM can count the R's in strawberry.
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
That feeling when you are considering running comprehensive benchmarks on how well each LLM can count the R's in strawberry.
Working on something interesting with Power BI and AI
November 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Working on something interesting with Power BI and AI
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Quit scrolling and start posting! Because the #DAX and #AnalysisServices team are now LIVE and answering YOUR questions. Jump in and have fun!
Link: aka.ms/powerbiama
#PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric
Link: aka.ms/powerbiama
#PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Quit scrolling and start posting! Because the #DAX and #AnalysisServices team are now LIVE and answering YOUR questions. Jump in and have fun!
Link: aka.ms/powerbiama
#PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric
Link: aka.ms/powerbiama
#PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric
Does anyone have any experience intentionally keeping multiple branches of the same model?
I'm thinking it would be useful to have small variations of a report for demos.
So a base model, a variation with a missing dimension table, one with intentionally slow DAX code, etc.
I'm thinking it would be useful to have small variations of a report for demos.
So a base model, a variation with a missing dimension table, one with intentionally slow DAX code, etc.
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Does anyone have any experience intentionally keeping multiple branches of the same model?
I'm thinking it would be useful to have small variations of a report for demos.
So a base model, a variation with a missing dimension table, one with intentionally slow DAX code, etc.
I'm thinking it would be useful to have small variations of a report for demos.
So a base model, a variation with a missing dimension table, one with intentionally slow DAX code, etc.
@itsnotaboutthecell.com Interesting!
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
@itsnotaboutthecell.com Interesting!
Writing about LLMs is causing Reddit trauma:
"Every single day, I see people ask technical questions on the Power BI Subreddit while providing no code, no intention, no context whatsoever and then expect us humans to somehow answer it. I suspect many people treat LLMs the same way."
"Every single day, I see people ask technical questions on the Power BI Subreddit while providing no code, no intention, no context whatsoever and then expect us humans to somehow answer it. I suspect many people treat LLMs the same way."
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Writing about LLMs is causing Reddit trauma:
"Every single day, I see people ask technical questions on the Power BI Subreddit while providing no code, no intention, no context whatsoever and then expect us humans to somehow answer it. I suspect many people treat LLMs the same way."
"Every single day, I see people ask technical questions on the Power BI Subreddit while providing no code, no intention, no context whatsoever and then expect us humans to somehow answer it. I suspect many people treat LLMs the same way."
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So our entire economic well being hinges on a company with $20B in revenues spending $1.4T on AI infrastructure when there isn’t enough electricity generated on the planet to power that many data centers?
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
So our entire economic well being hinges on a company with $20B in revenues spending $1.4T on AI infrastructure when there isn’t enough electricity generated on the planet to power that many data centers?
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As AIs get smarter & more useful, our benchmarks become less useful. Measuring general knowledge or coding ability gives us only a glimpse into what an AI model can do.
Anyone who wants to use AI seriously for real work will need to assess it themselves. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/giving-you...
Anyone who wants to use AI seriously for real work will need to assess it themselves. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/giving-you...
Giving your AI a Job Interview
As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it
www.oneusefulthing.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
As AIs get smarter & more useful, our benchmarks become less useful. Measuring general knowledge or coding ability gives us only a glimpse into what an AI model can do.
Anyone who wants to use AI seriously for real work will need to assess it themselves. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/giving-you...
Anyone who wants to use AI seriously for real work will need to assess it themselves. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/giving-you...
That feeling when you are just as interested in reproducible demos of something failing as you are it succeeding.
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
That feeling when you are just as interested in reproducible demos of something failing as you are it succeeding.
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Just found my new favorite blogger
A discussion with one of my research colleagues and @simonwillison.net led me to write this down.
"Full Stack Person" sounds like a mouthful, but IMO captures well the idea of becoming a well-rounded technologist.
den.dev/blog/full-st...
"Full Stack Person" sounds like a mouthful, but IMO captures well the idea of becoming a well-rounded technologist.
den.dev/blog/full-st...
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Just found my new favorite blogger
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...