BIFocal - Clarifying Business Intelligence

John & Jason

Podcast by John White & Jason Himmelstein

  1. 12. Mai

    Episode 326 - Microsoft Fabric & Power BI April 2026 Feature Summary

    This is episode 326, recorded on May 7th, 2026, where John and Jason break down the Power BI & Fabric April 2026 Feature Summaries — DAX user-defined functions are here in preview, Direct Lake is flexing new modeling muscles, the Dataflows Gen1 community drama has a plot twist, Fabric Data Warehouse finally gets true transactional DDL, and VS Code integration in Fabric notebooks keeps leveling up. It's the April feature summary double-header. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

  2. 5. Mai

    Episode 325 - Microsoft Fabric March 2026 Feature Summary (Part 3)

    This is episode 325, recorded April 17th, 2026, where John and Jason dig into the Real-Time Intelligence section of the Microsoft Fabric March 2026 Feature Summary covering topics such as Business Events, DeltaFlow for CDC, real-time processing with Spark notebooks, and some welcome quality-of-life updates across Event House and workspace monitoring. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

  3. 28. Apr.

    Episode 324 - Microsoft Fabric March 2026 Feature Summary (Part 2)

    This is episode 324, recorded on April 17th, 2026, where John and Jason continue through the Microsoft Fabric March 2026 Feature Summary — the Data Science & AI rebrand with Fabric Data Agents reaching GA, AutoML going GA, multimodal support for AI functions, the Data Warehouse section covering Fabric Data Warehouse recovery, Activator support, T-SQL AI functions, ANY_VALUE aggregate, Custom SQL Pools, SQL audit logs GA, outbound access protection, and the big one — the Database Hub, Fabric's new unified control plane for databases across edge, on-prem, cloud and Fabric. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

  4. 21. Apr.

    Episode 323 - Microsoft Fabric March 2026 Feature Summary (Part 1)

    This is episode 323, recorded on April 16th, 2026, where John and Jason dig into part one of the Microsoft Fabric March 2026 Feature Summary — including the GA of OneLake Catalog Govern for admins, the OneLake Catalog Search API as an MCP tool, workspace tags going GA, DLP policies extending to structured data in OneLake, branched workspace with Git integration and selective branching, the new connection reference variable type, Fabric CLI v1.5 with one-command deployments, the Fabric Remote MCP server, OneLake File Explorer reaching GA, and the preview of Fabric Runtime 2.0 with Spark 4 and Delta Lake 4. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

  5. 14. Apr.

    Episode 322 - FabCon Atlanta 2026 keynote recap

    This is episode 322, recorded on April 8th, 2026, where John and Jason dig into the keynote announcements from FabCon Atlanta — including SharePoint list mirroring into OneLake, Excel-to-Delta table shortcuts, major CI/CD improvements like selective branching and the Fabric CLI, the new Database Hub giving you a single pane of glass across your entire database estate, and a brand new Planning workload built right into Fabric. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

  6. 24. März

    Episode 321 - Microsoft Fabric February 2025 Feature Summary

    This is episode 321 recorded on March 3rd, 2026, where John and Jason break down the Microsoft Fabric February 2026 Feature Summary — including expanded workspace identity limits, notebook and Dataflow Gen2 improvements, new Data Factory capabilities, and enhancements across Real-Time Intelligence and the Fabric VS Code tooling. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

  7. 17. März

    Episode 320 - Power BI February 2025 Feature Summary

    This is episode 320 recorded on March 3rd, 2026, where John and Jason break down the Power BI February 2026 Feature Summary — including new DAX functions, improvements to Copilot prompts and Power BI apps, multiple-value clipboard support for slicers, and updates to visuals and error diagnostics in Power BI Desktop. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

  8. 10. März

    Episode 319 - Fabric January 2026 Feature Summary

    This is episode 319 recorded on February 6th, 2026, where John and Jason break down the Microsoft Fabric January 2026 Feature Summary — including the Osmos acquisition for AI-ready data engineering, Git branch improvements and Python SDK support for the Fabric API, expanded OneLake security, and new Real-Time Intelligence enhancements. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

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