For Power BI and Fabric practitioners who want AI to do the boring parts.https://thedatapractitioner.com/en-ushttps://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/fabric-cli/https://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/fabric-cli/The Fabric CLI lets you browse your tenant like folders on disk, copy reports, check who has access, and pull refresh history from the terminal. This guide runs one workspace through those chores and shows how the same commands go to a pipeline or your AI agent.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:00:06 GMThttps://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/claude-code-for-power-bi-development/https://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/claude-code-for-power-bi-development/Claude Code and Codex are AI agents that work in a terminal: they read your Power BI project's files, make the change you describe, and ask before they act. This guide installs Claude Code, adds one real DAX measure with a single prompt, and covers the permission prompts, modes and skills you need to stay in control.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:00:04 GMThttps://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/tmdl-view-on-the-web/https://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/tmdl-view-on-the-web/TMDL view in the Power BI service lets you script, preview, and apply a change to a published semantic model without opening Desktop or republishing. This guide fixes a wrong measure on a live model, adds security roles and a bulk rename the same way, and covers what apply doesn't do: refresh data, update report visuals, or keep your scripts.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:00:08 GMThttps://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/version-history-in-power-bi-desktop/https://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/version-history-in-power-bi-desktop/Save a .pbix to OneDrive or SharePoint and Power BI Desktop keeps every save as a version you can open, compare, and restore. This guide walks one report through four versions and a rollback, then draws the line where file snapshots stop and source control begins.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:16:07 GMThttps://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/power-bi-desktop-bridge/https://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/power-bi-desktop-bridge/The Power BI Desktop Bridge lets an AI agent reload the report it just edited and screenshot the result, so it can grade its own work before you look. This guide sets it up, explains each call, and walks through an agent that rebuilt a table as a formatted matrix in 11 graded rounds.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:44:29 GMThttps://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/power-bi-authoring-with-official-ai-skills/https://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/power-bi-authoring-with-official-ai-skills/Microsoft's Power BI skills turned seven CSV files and one paragraph into a four-page report in about an hour, then published it. This guide walks through the run, from the design contract the agent writes first to the model and pages it builds, the year-over-year bug it caught on its own, and why the published report still had no data.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:00:07 GMThttps://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/microsoft-skills-for-fabric-overview/https://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/microsoft-skills-for-fabric-overview/Microsoft's skills for Fabric teach your AI coding tool how to work with Fabric. This guide explains how skills, agents, bundles, and MCP servers fit together, installs the current bundles in Claude Code, and runs one prompt that documents a whole workspace.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:35:48 GMThttps://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/build-semantic-models-with-ai-via-code-and-clis/https://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/build-semantic-models-with-ai-via-code-and-clis/Tabular Editor now ships as a command-line tool with JSON output and exit codes, so an AI agent can create, script, check, and deploy a Power BI semantic model from the terminal. This guide runs one messy model through the whole loop.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:00:08 GMThttps://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/power-bi-modeling-mcp-server/https://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/power-bi-modeling-mcp-server/Connect an AI agent to the model open in Power BI Desktop and it can document every table, column, and measure in one prompt, then hide keys, add sort-by columns, and write the measures you were missing. This guide runs four prompts against one messy model and reviews every change as a Git diff before it's kept.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:15:00 GMThttps://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/put-your-power-bi-reports-in-github/https://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/put-your-power-bi-reports-in-github/Put a Power BI project in a GitHub repository and every change, whether you made it, a colleague did, or an AI tool did, arrives as a diff you can review and undo. This guide sets up the tools, commits a real project, and takes one measure from branch to merge and back out again.Tue, 19 May 2026 12:15:00 GMThttps://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/power-bi-reports-as-code-pbip/https://thedatapractitioner.com/articles/power-bi-reports-as-code-pbip/Save a Power BI report as a project and every page, visual, measure, and security rule becomes a text file. This guide follows one report through that folder, shows which files you can safely edit, and explains why this is the format AI tools need.Tue, 12 May 2026 12:45:00 GMT