This is episode 281 recorded on August 9th, 2024 where John & Jason talk to Charles Webb, Principal PM Manager for Data Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric, about Fabric, Data Warehouse, his history with Power BI & Dataflows, AI, college sports & business, his work in philanthropy and much more.

Episode 281 - Interview With Charles Webb

This is episode 300 recorded on July 31st, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric July 2025 Feature Summary including tags in Fabric Domains, Fabric Data Agent integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio, enhancements to Activator, manual control of Auto-Refresh in pipelines, and CosmosDB in preview now in Fabric.

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Episode 300 - Microsoft Fabric July 2025 Feature Summary

This is episode 301 recorded on August 20th, 2025, where John & Jason talk with friends and fellow podcasters Andrew Connell & Julie Turner of the Code.Deploy.GoLive show about how this podcast is AC's fault in the first place, what they are doing with their new podcast, community, and general shenanigans to celebrate the BIFocal.show's 300th episode.

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Episode 301 - Interview with Andrew Connell & Julie Turner of Code.Deploy.GoLive

This is episode 302 recorded on August 20th, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Power BI August 2025 Feature Summary including Copilot in Embedded Reports for SharePoint Online, edit your data model in the Power BI service, TMDL view enhancements, Semantic Model refresh templates with Fabric Data pipelines, and more.

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Episode 302 - Power BI August 2025 Feature Summary

This is episode 303 recorded on August 21st, 2025, where John & Jason talk to Mike Carlo from Power BI Tips.com about Power BI & Microsoft Fabric, how his company is doing Workloads in Fabric, a debate about Lakehouses vs Warehouses, the Power Designer & Entelexos tools, and other fun topics.

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Episode 303 - Interview with Mike Carlo from Power BI Tips

This is episode 304 recorded on September 4th, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric August 2025 Feature Summary including a new Flat list view in Deployment pipelines, Bursting controls for Data Engineering workloads, new test capabilities for User Data Functions, the ability to server real-time predictions with ML model endpoints, several updates to Data Warehouse, Database tree in edit tile and AzMon data sources for RTI, the ability to use Python Notebooks to read/write to Fabric SQL Databases, Auto table creation on destination in copy job in Data Factory, and much, much more.

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Episode 304 - Microsoft Fabric August 2025 Feature Summary

This is episode 305 recorded on September 9th, 2025, where John & Jason drive across Missouri after the North America Collaboration Summit and discuss OneLake Security and other data topics in the news today.

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Episode 305 - On the road with OneLake Security and other news

This is episode 306 recorded on September 19th, 2025, where John & Jason talk about the first half of the Microsoft Fabric September 2025 Feature Summary including the Fabric Multitasking UI Upgrade, Variable Libraries going GA, User Data Functions Going GA with Major Enhancements, the ability to query mirrored databases in spark notebooks, and much more.

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Episode 306 - Microsoft Fabric September 2025 Feature Summary part 1

This is episode 307 recorded on September 19th, 2025, where John & Jason continue talking about the Microsoft Fabric September 2025 Feature Summary including the Data Agent improvements, Merge Transact SQL in Data Warehouse, new Real-Time Intelligence Features, and much more.

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Episode 307 - Microsoft Fabric September 2025 Feature Summary part 2

This is episode 308 recorded on September 22nd, 2025, where John & Jason finish talking about the Microsoft Fabric September 2025 Feature Summary including the DataFlows Gen 2 Engine Overhaul and all that it entails, Connectivity updates, and Mirroring changes.

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