Explicit Measures Podcast
Hosted by Mike Carlo, and Tommy Puglia, the Explicit Measures Podcast is a Power BI focused show that is like being around a Power BI Pro’s Water Cooler. With so many available resources in the community that focuses on the “how” in Power BI (how to do Drill Through, how to use DAX, etc.,), the Explicit Measures Podcast is all around the WHY. Why use a particular feature, does it make sense for my users? Build the toolset, learn the how, and then come to the Podcast to the listen to the why in situations we all experience as Power BI Pros.
Episodes
Mike & Tommy untangle workspace, branching, and artifact chaos, exploring how to organize Fabric environments amid conflicting advice from Microsoft and consultants, and provide a practical framework for managing dev/test/prod workflows without workspace proliferation.
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Mike and Tommy go through another great mailbag:
I just finished listening to Adopting Copilot Standalone for Power BI - Ep.428. You may have addressed this before but I'd enjoy hearing a conversation about addressing what is the problem you are trying to solve for? You can have many tools and be highly skilled with it. But do you understand the issue for which the business needs improvement against?
Mike & Tommy explore the new Tabular Editor feature Semantic Bridge, investigating how this technology bridges the gap between different semantic modeling standards across platforms, and examining whether it solves real problems or just adds complexity to the BI ecosystem.
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Mike & Tommy tackle source control in BI, exploring whether serialization formats like database.json and TMDL solve more problems than they create, and how teams can implement version control without overwhelming analysts.
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Mike & Tommy dive into TMDL, Tabular Editor, and AI automation for semantic modeling, questioning why typing less gets so much attention when it's never the real bottleneck, and uncovering which workflow friction points actually deserve your automation effort.
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Mike & Tommy unpack developer experience for Power BI pros, exploring how UDFs, enhanced time intelligence, and specialized tools transform data modeling workflows, and revealing why certain development practices stick while others fade away.
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Mike & Tommy break down Real Time Intelligence in Fabric, exploring what Power BI pros need to know to get started with this feature, and how to build real-time pipelines that transform traditional refresh-based reporting into powerful streaming insights.
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Mike & Tommy dive into Data Modeling in Event-Driven Architectures, exploring how Power BI skills apply to Real-Time Analytics in Microsoft Fabric, and provide practical approaches for transitioning from traditional modeling to handling streaming data effectively.
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Mike & Tommy finally weigh in on the measure total debate that's been heating up online, exploring why totals don't add up as expected, whether it's a DAX problem or a misunderstanding of filter context, and how developers can build measures that business users actually trust without breaking their mental models.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/more-measure-totals-shenanigans-daniel-otykier-7bwef
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Mike & Tommy debate the new Power BI Project (PBIP) format, questioning whether source control and Git integration are worth the added complexity, and discussing who should migrate from the traditional PBIX binary format.
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Mike & Tommy are joined by Microsoft's Chris Schimdt on utilizing real time with actual applications in and outside Microsoft Fabric.
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Mike & Tommy explore Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric, questioning whether event-driven analytics is a genuine business need or just technical hype, and discussing how organizations can move beyond real-time dashboards to embed streaming intelligence into their Power BI adoption strategy.
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Mike & Tommy dive more into Data Agents... but are Semantic Models the preferred data source?
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Mike & Tommy have another great mailbag from YOU on utilizing Power BI subscriptions being proactive and efficient.
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Wow! we have a doozy of an episode today. Mike & Tommy ask the question if Microsoft Fabric the evolution of business intelligence or something different altogether. How should one position the themselves in the industry?
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We are talking about the buzz! Mike and Tommy wrap their heads around User Defined Functions (UDFs) in DAX and what implementation looks like.
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Mike & Tommy rank the BEST features in the Microsoft Data Platform, from level 1 the TOP to what is essential to what they do.
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Mike & Tommy dive into the major updates from FabCon Vienna and what it means for Power BI & Microsoft Fabric users alike.
https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-US/blog/september-2025-fabric-feature-summary
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Mike & Tommy go through a great mailbag question on composite models and reusable models, along with how this changes in Fabric.
Whoa! I think I'm triggered after listening to both your composite model episode and your managing multiple dataset episode. Isn't a fair bit of the question similar however much of the discussion seems different between episodes... In one sense- the gold standard seems to be thorough with data...
Mike & Tommy give their thoughts on the state of Microsoft Fabric Data Agents.
https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/new-in-fabric-data-agent-data-source-instructions-for-smarter-more-accurate-ai-responses/?WT.mc_id=DP-MVP-5002621#
https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/fabric-data-agents-microsoft-copilot-studio-a-new-era-of-multi-agent-orchestration/?WT.mc_id=DP-MVP-5002621#
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