SQLBits 2024

Fabric Direct Lake Deep Dive

Learn how the new Direct Lake mode for Power BI in Microsoft Fabric works

One of the coolest things about Microsoft Fabric is the new Power BI Direct Lake mode, where you can build reports on data in your data lake without needing to import it. In this session you'll learn all about Direct Lake mode: how it works, why you might not get it to work, how to monitor it and more!

Chris Webb's other proposed sessions for 2026

Fabric Power Hour - 2026

Performance tuning Dataflows Gen2 - 2026

Tuning Power BI Copilot with AI Instructions - 2026

Secrets of Power BI Performance Analyzer - 2026

Chris Webb's previous sessions

What's new in Power Query in Power BI, Fabric and Excel?

Find out about new Power Query features in Power BI Desktop, Fabric Dataflows and Excel.

Connect Excel to Power BI data with Live Connected Tables

In this session you'll learn how to create Live Connected Tables and what the advantages and disadvantages of using them are.

Fabric Power Hour

The famous Power BI Power Hour returns, but this time it has expanded to cover the whole of Fabric!

Fabric Direct Lake Deep Dive

Learn how the new Direct Lake mode for Power BI in Microsoft Fabric works