I'm a consultant, mentor, and author, with a focus on the design and implementation of Data Analytics solutions.
Joined September 2008
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Jun 9
Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) - prologika.com/osi/ An exited enterprise client came back from a conference where Snowflake delighted them with AI demos and semantic views built on Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) standard. Snowflake even went further to show how their ...
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May 26
Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on June 1st (Build Your First Agent in Copilot Studio) - prologika.com/atlanta-micros… Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, June 1st at 18:30 ET. Elayne Jones (Senior Solution Engineer at Microsoft) will show ...
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May 20
Replicating BigQuery to Fabric Reloaded - prologika.com/replicating-bi… In a previous post, I referred to an engagement where we used the Fabric Copy Job activity to replicate Google BigQuery tables to Fabric, so we can use Direct Lake semantic models. A few months later, the clie...
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May 20
Replicating BigQuery to Fabric Reloaded - prologika.com/replicating-bi… In a previous post, I referred to an engagement where we used the Fabric Copy Job activity to replicate Google BigQuery tables to Fabric, so we can use Direct Lake semantic models. A few months later, the clie...
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Apr 27
Power BI Unmaterialized Columns - prologika.com/powerbi-unmate… Coming back from a long vacation, I’ve almost missed this interesting Power BI enhancement: Power BI unmaterialized calculated columns. Normally, I avoid the traditional DAX calculated columns for a variety of reasons...
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Mar 4
Direct Lake Composite Models - prologika.com/direct-lake-co… I’ve mentioned previously in the “A Couple of Direct Lake Gotchas” post that unlike Power BI reports, Excel surprised me by not showing user-defined hierarchies in a Direct Lake model. Direct Lake comes with other gotcha...
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Feb 25
Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on March 2nd (Your First Steps in Microsoft Fabric Using Just SQL) - prologika.com/atlanta-micros… Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, March 2nd at 18:30 ET. Shabnam Watson will show you how you can apply you...
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Feb 24
A Couple of Direct Lake Gotchas - prologika.com/a-couple-of-di… I’m helping an enterprise client modernize their data analytics estate. As a part of this exercise, a SSAS Multidimensional financial cube must be converted to a Power BI semantic model. The challenge is that business...
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Jan 28
Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on February 2nd (Power BI Translytical Taskflows) - prologika.com/atlanta-micros… Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, February 2nd at 18:30 ET. Sukhwant Kaur (Product Manager at Microsoft) will show you how s...
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30 Dec 2025
Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on January 5th (Visual Calculations in Power BI) - prologika.com/atlanta-micros… Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, January 5th at 18:30 ET. Dean Jurecic will show you how Power BI visual calculations can si...
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27 Dec 2025
First Look at Fabric IQ: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - prologika.com/first-look-at-… Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
Telegraph road got so deep and so wide
Like a rolling river…
The Telegraph Road, Dire Straits
At Ignite in November, 2025, Microsoft intro...
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24 Dec 2025
Performance and Cost Considerations from Power BI Pro/PPU to Fabric - prologika.com/performance-an… What performance and cost considerations should you keep in mind if you are currently on Power BI Pro/PPU, but Fabric looks increasingly enticing?
Performance
Performance is d...
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20 Dec 2025
Prologika Newsletter Winter 2025 - prologika.com/prologika-news…
If Microsoft Fabric is in your future, you need to come up with a strategy to get your data in Fabric OneLake. That’s because the holy grail of Fabric is the Delta Parquet file format. The good news is that all F...
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10 Dec 2025
Power BI Workspace Identity Authentication - prologika.com/power-bi-works… What credentials do you use to refresh your Power BI semantic models from Azure SQL SKUs, such as Azure SQL Database. Probably your credentials or a designated Entra account? Both are not ideal for a variet...
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26 Nov 2025
Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on December 1st (Migrating Semantic Models to Fabric Direct Lake) - prologika.com/atlanta-micros… Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, December 1st at 18:30 ET. I'll show you how to Fabric DirectLake semantic ...
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19 Nov 2025
SaaS Losers and Winners: Paylocity and Element - prologika.com/saas-losers-an… “We are sailing to Philadelphia
A world away from the coaly Tyne
Sailing to Philadelphia
To draw the line
The Mason-Dixon line”
“Sailing to Philadelphia”, Mark Knopfler
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29 Oct 2025
Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on November 3rd (Semantic Link Labs: A Link to the Future) - prologika.com/atlanta-micros… Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, November 3rd at 18:30 ET. Jason Romans (Microsoft MVP) will show you how to use S...
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3 Oct 2025
Replicating BigQuery to Fabric - prologika.com/replicating-bi… A recent engagement required replicating some DW tables from Google BigQuery to a Fabric Lakehouse. We considered the Fabric mirroring feature (back then in private preview, now publicly available) and learned some les...
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3 Oct 2025
Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on October 9th (Everything You Want to Know About SQL Databases in Fabric) - prologika.com/atlanta-micros… Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Thursday, October 9th (note that we are meeting on Thursday for this meet...
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22 Sep 2025
Prologika Newsletter Fall 2025 - prologika.com/prologika-news… Like the Ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes, who walked the streets of Athens with a lamp to find one honest man, I have been searching for a convincing Fabric feature for my clients. As Microsoft Fabric evolves, more...
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