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Microsoft Data Podcast – Analytics, Fabric & Data Governance Episodes

Modern Microsoft architectures are increasingly data-driven, spanning analytics, reporting, automation, and AI workloads. Data Talk focuses on data platforms and governance within the Microsoft ecosystem, including Microsoft Fabric, analytics services, and enterprise data architectures.

Episodes cover topics such as data modeling, pipelines, governance models, security boundaries, and integration with Microsoft 365 and Azure. We explore how data flows across services, where governance breaks down, and why unmanaged growth creates long-term risk.

Data Talk emphasizes understanding data systems as operational platforms rather than isolated analytics tools. Discussions include identity and access models, compliance considerations, data residency, and the interaction between AI-driven services and enterprise data.

This category is intended for data architects, engineers, and IT leaders responsible for designing and governing Microsoft data platforms. If you need clarity on how Microsoft data services behave at scale, Data Talk provides grounded, experience-based insight.
The Fabric Governance Illusion: Why Your Data Strategy Is Rotting
Feb. 7, 2026

The Fabric Governance Illusion: Why Your Data Strategy Is Rotting

This episode of the M365.FM Podcast explains why Microsoft Fabric governance often fails in real life — even when organizations believe they’ve “solved” governance simply by adopting the platform. The host argues that treating Fabric as a single unified platform with one governance story is a dange…
From Tables to Strategy: What Smart Dataverse Models Really Mean for the Future of Business Apps
Jan. 24, 2026

From Tables to Strategy: What Smart Dataverse Models Really Mean for the Future of Business Apps

In this in-depth episode, we reframe how you think about Microsoft Dataverse and the data models that underpin modern business applications. Rather than treating Dataverse as just a database, this conversation argues that your data model is your strategy — and that smart modeling is what separates …
Architectural Drift: Governing Autonomous AI Models in Power BI Fabric
Jan. 22, 2026

Architectural Drift: Governing Autonomous AI Models in Power BI Fabric

In this episode, Architectural Drift: Governing Autonomous AI Models in Power BI Fabric, we explore why modern analytics platforms like Microsoft Fabric and Power BI are not simply reporting tools, but are now part of a broader architectural ecosystem that must be governed to prevent silent semanti…
Fabric Lineage Is Not Governance: The Distributed Decision Engine That Exposes The Data Control Plane Lie
Jan. 20, 2026

Fabric Lineage Is Not Governance: The Distributed Decision Engine That Exposes The Data Control Plane Lie

Many organizations believe they have governance in Microsoft Fabric because they can see data lineage. In reality, lineage only shows what already happened — it does not prevent anything from happening.This episode explains why Fabric lineage is not governance and why visibility is often mistak…
Dashboards Are Dead. Long Live the Question
Jan. 12, 2026

Dashboards Are Dead. Long Live the Question

Dashboards didn’t fail — they expired.This episode explores why traditional BI reporting stopped being the primary interface for executive decision-making, even when the dashboards are “good.” The problem isn’t visualization quality or adoption. It’s that the business decision model changed, an…
Fabric Rewrote Data Engineering
Jan. 11, 2026

Fabric Rewrote Data Engineering

This episode explores why Microsoft Fabric and Copilot feel empowering and chaotic at the same time. While Fabric simplifies the experience by unifying storage, compute, and analytics into a single platform, it does not remove the hard parts of data engineering. It removes friction, not responsibil…
Beyond SELECT: Why T-SQL Still Shapes Modern Data Strategy
Jan. 10, 2026

Beyond SELECT: Why T-SQL Still Shapes Modern Data Strategy

Everyone says SQL is obsolete. This episode argues the opposite: SQL has never mattered more—because modern data platforms removed the guardrails that used to hide its importance. In systems like lakehouses and Fabric, T-SQL didn’t disappear; it moved upstream and quietly became the place where cos…
Why Fabric Data Models Drift — and Why DAX Can’t Save Them
Jan. 1, 2026

Why Fabric Data Models Drift — and Why DAX Can’t Save Them

Most analytics teams believe their data models enforce truth—but in reality, they quietly rewrite it. This talk dismantles the assumption that semantic models and DAX are neutral analytic layers, arguing instead that they often act as ungoverned authorization engines. While Row-Level Security (RLS)…
Microsoft Fabric Governance Explained: Why Your Data Model Will Drift
Dec. 30, 2025

Microsoft Fabric Governance Explained: Why Your Data Model Will Drift

Most organizations think their data problems are about who can see reports. In reality, the bigger risk is what those reports mean today—and how quietly that meaning changes tomorrow. Your transcript argues that Microsoft Fabric doesn’t create chaos by being insecure; it exposes a deeper problem th…
Entropy in the Lakehouse: Fabric’s Answer to Identity Chaos
Dec. 27, 2025

Entropy in the Lakehouse: Fabric’s Answer to Identity Chaos

The system never betrayed your data — it only obeyed it. The real problem begins the moment identity is treated as an assumption instead of a constraint. What looks like harmless flexibility at small scale quietly turns into structural uncertainty as data grows, sources multiply, and systems change…
The Fabric Ecosystem: I Have Forged Your New Data Reality
Dec. 19, 2025

The Fabric Ecosystem: I Have Forged Your New Data Reality

You think Power BI performance problems are a dashboard issue? Think again — the real problem is hiding upstream.In this episode, we break down Microsoft Fabric as a living data ecosystem and explain why Power BI only thrives when the entire architecture beneath it is healthy. Using a clear, st…
STOP Using Power BI Themes That Lie
Dec. 14, 2025

STOP Using Power BI Themes That Lie

Your Power BI theme might be the reason your dashboard is silently lying to you. In this breakdown, you’ll learn why a Power BI theme isn’t “just branding” — it’s a containment field that keeps critical signals visible. The video exposes five hidden failures that make alerts fade, subtotals vanish …
Why Microsoft Fabric Is Becoming the New Operating System for Enterprise Data
Dec. 6, 2025

Why Microsoft Fabric Is Becoming the New Operating System for Enterprise Data

Your data platform isn’t a platform – it’s a staged illusion. In this episode, I break down why your “modern stack” of Power BI, ad hoc pipelines, shadow CSVs and seven conflicting dashboards is really entropy in disguise. We dissect the real reason Microsoft Fabric exists: not as another feature b…
The Doctrine of Distribution: Why Your Power BI Reports Require Apostolic Succession
Dec. 1, 2025

The Doctrine of Distribution: Why Your Power BI Reports Require Apostolic Succession

Are your dashboards secretly preaching lies? In this episode, we turn data governance into a full-on revival meeting. We name the heresy of ad-hoc share links, stale workspaces and broken RLS that quietly corrupt your “single source of truth”. Then we reveal the doctrine of distribution: org apps a…
Excel Is NOT Your Database: Stop The Power Apps Lie
Nov. 30, 2025

Excel Is NOT Your Database: Stop The Power Apps Lie

Your “Simple” Excel App Is Quietly Wrecking Your Business (And You Won’t See It Until It’s Expensive)Stop wiring Power Apps into spreadsheets and calling it “production.” Every shared Excel file is a glass elevator: silent data loss, last-save-wins concurrency, and zero governance until an audi…
The 1400 Connector Lie: Why Azure Logic Apps Beats Power Automate
Nov. 27, 2025

The 1400 Connector Lie: Why Azure Logic Apps Beats Power Automate

Summary: In this episode I explain why “1,400+ connectors” is a vanity metric and compare Power Automate vs Azure Logic Apps for real enterprise integration. We dig into throttling, throughput, vNet and private endpoints, Azure Arc hybrid, AI agents with Azure Functions, and give you a simple decis…
Stop Using Fragile Data: Fabric Snapshots Deliver The ONLY Version of Truth
Nov. 25, 2025

Stop Using Fragile Data: Fabric Snapshots Deliver The ONLY Version of Truth

Warehouse Snapshots in Microsoft Fabric promise simplified data recovery and historical consistency — but many organizations misunderstand how they actually work. Snapshots are not traditional backups, and relying on them incorrectly can lead to architectural and governance issues.In this guide…
Python is Dead: The AI That Killed It
Nov. 22, 2025

Python is Dead: The AI That Killed It

Python is NOT the language of AI inside the Microsoft stack—and in this episode, I show you why that belief is quietly wrecking your Power Platform projects, inflating defects, and burning your budget. If you’re cramming Python into Power Automate, Power BI, Fabric, or custom connectors as “glue co…
The 3 Ways Microsoft Hides Pixel-Perfect Reports
Nov. 19, 2025

The 3 Ways Microsoft Hides Pixel-Perfect Reports

Your Power BI dashboards aren’t broken – you’re just using them for the wrong job. This episode shows why “Export to PDF” is a lying screenshot, and how paginated reports (in the Service, Report Builder, or Visual Studio) finally give executives the print-perfect, audit-ready PDFs they keep asking …
Stop Using DAX UDFs Wrong! The Hidden Gotchas
Nov. 18, 2025

Stop Using DAX UDFs Wrong! The Hidden Gotchas

You thought VAL vs EXPR was harmless syntax sugar. In reality, it decides when your metrics are evaluated, which means the same function, same arguments can return a completely different “truth” — clean visuals, perfect totals, and numbers that are confidently wrong.
3D Objects Are the Ultimate Test of Fabric Governance: Catalyst E3
Nov. 17, 2025

3D Objects Are the Ultimate Test of Fabric Governance: Catalyst E3

Think spreadsheets are chaos? Cute. In this episode we stress-test Microsoft Fabric against the worst data you own: photorealistic 3D assets and full-fidelity digital twins. We break down why a single “file” is actually a sprawling supply chain of scans, meshes, textures, physics, and licenses — an…
The NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture: Why Your Data Fabric is Too Slow
Nov. 15, 2025

The NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture: Why Your Data Fabric is Too Slow

Your GPUs aren’t the problem. Your data fabric is.In this episode, we unpack why “AI-ready” on top of 2013-era plumbing is quietly lighting your cloud bill on fire—and how Azure plus NVIDIA Blackwell flips the equation. Think thousands of GPUs acting like one giant brain, NVLink and InfiniBand …
Stop Using Default Gateway Settings: Fix Your Power Platform Connectivity NOW!
Nov. 14, 2025

Stop Using Default Gateway Settings: Fix Your Power Platform Connectivity NOW!

Your Power BI refreshes still crawling like dial-up? This episode exposes the real villain: your “safe” on-prem data gateway.We tear apart the myth of the dumb tunnel and show how the gateway actually behaves like an overloaded processing engine—juggling auth, TLS, caching and concurrency.You…
SharePoint Is NOT a Database: The Power Apps Lie
Nov. 8, 2025

SharePoint Is NOT a Database: The Power Apps Lie

In this episode of the M365 Show, we unpack the most common Power Apps mistake in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem: assuming SharePoint is a “free database.” We break down why SharePoint lists look like a database, but architecturally behave like a file-centric collaboration layer—not a transactional da…