Hands on LLMS for Power BI Devs

Proposed session for SQLBits 2026

TL; DR

In this session, we'll present a framework for what tasks should be outsourced to and LLM and what should not. We'll walk you through a sample project of having to clean up a legacy Power BI report based on the Adventureworks sample database. This session go from report discovery to data access to data modeling to data layout.

Session Details

In this session, we are going see how LLMs can make you faster with Power BI development from a daily development perspective. We will walk you through the process from start to finish, focusing on:

1) Getting set up, LLM theory, building an intuition
2) Legacy report discovery
3) Modeling cleanup and enhancements with LLMS
4) Advanced LLM use

3 things you'll get out of this session

Have a framework for which tasks to outsource to the LLM Understand how to use LLMs for all stages of report cleanup and development Learn about some advanced LLM workflows and Claude Code