https://www.m365.fm/entity/direct-lake/Direct Lake is a storage mode for Power BI semantic models in Microsoft Fabric that reads Delta tables directly from OneLake instead of importing a copy or querying the source on every click.enhttps://www.m365.fm/show/episodes/microsoft-fabric-direct-lake-simply-explained/https://www.m365.fm/show/episodes/microsoft-fabric-direct-lake-simply-explained/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0000episodePower BI used to force a choice between fast but stale import reports and fresh but slow DirectQuery. This episode explains Direct Lake in Microsoft Fabric for analysts and admins who want both. You learn how framing works, which of the two flavours to pick…https://www.m365.fm/community/u/mirko-p/blog/import-vs-directquery-vs-direct-lake-power-bi/https://www.m365.fm/community/u/mirko-p/blog/import-vs-directquery-vs-direct-lake-power-bi/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:36:04 -0000articleCompare Import, DirectQuery, and Direct Lake storage modes in Power BI to optimize report performance, data freshness, and infrastructure costs.https://www.m365.fm/show/episodes/power-bi-semantic-models/https://www.m365.fm/show/episodes/power-bi-semantic-models/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0000episodeLearn what a Power BI semantic model really is. Master tables, relationships, star schemas, storage modes like Direct Lake, and reuse in this guide. You think your Power BI problem is the chart, but the chart is the easy part. Every report you build is…https://www.m365.fm/show/episodes/microsoft-fabric-governance-data-model-drift/https://www.m365.fm/show/episodes/microsoft-fabric-governance-data-model-drift/Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0000episodeMost 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…https://www.m365.fm/show/episodes/microsoft-fabric-ecosystem-unifying-data-governance-ai/https://www.m365.fm/show/episodes/microsoft-fabric-ecosystem-unifying-data-governance-ai/Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0000episodeYou 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…https://www.m365.fm/show/episodes/why-microsoft-fabric-is-new-enterprise-data-os/https://www.m365.fm/show/episodes/why-microsoft-fabric-is-new-enterprise-data-os/Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0000episodeYour 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…https://www.m365.fm/show/episodes/the-hidden-engine-inside-microsoft-fabric/https://www.m365.fm/show/episodes/the-hidden-engine-inside-microsoft-fabric/Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0000episodeMicrosoft Fabric fundamentally changes how Power BI handles data. With OneLake and Direct Lake, Power BI can now query lakehouse tables directly with performance similar to Import mode — without creating duplicate copies or maintaining complex refresh cycles.…https://www.m365.fm/show/episodes/your-fabric-data-lake-is-too-slow-the-nvme-fix/https://www.m365.fm/show/episodes/your-fabric-data-lake-is-too-slow-the-nvme-fix/Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0000episodeYour Fabric and Power Platform workloads aren’t slow because of Spark or DAX—they’re slow because your data lives far from your compute. Managed storage adds network hops, caps IOPS, and taxes every read/write with latency. The fix isn’t “more nodes”; it’s…https://www.m365.fm/show/episodes/stop-wasting-money-the-3-architectures-for-fabric-data-flows-gen-2/https://www.m365.fm/show/episodes/stop-wasting-money-the-3-architectures-for-fabric-data-flows-gen-2/Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0000episodeMost Microsoft Fabric teams are bleeding money because they treat Dataflows Gen2 like old Power BI ETL. In Fabric, compute—not storage—is the meter, so every redundant refresh spins up clusters, reloads the same sources, and multiplies cost. The fix is…