Introducing the NEW Tabular Editor CLI - with Peer Grønnerup

LIVESTREAM DATE/TIME 📅

May 29th 9:30 AM (Pacific Time)

DESCRIPTION 📄

Command line tools have a reputation problem. People hear "CLI" and either tune out or assume they need to be a DevOps engineer to get any value out of it. For most semantic model developers, that's been the story for years.

The new standalone Tabular Editor CLI changes that. You don't need to live in the terminal to automate validation, deployment, and testing across your tabular models. You just need a starting point.

In this livestream Peer will be walking through the new CLI from scratch: what it is, why it matters for Power BI and Fabric work, and how it fits into the rest of your workflow (AI agents included, if that's your flavor). We'll cover:

• What the Tabular Editor CLI actually does

• Local setup with zero prior CLI experience

• Using AI agents to generate and run commands for you

• Automating model validation, testing, and deployment

• Wiring it into CI/CD without breaking everything No prior command line experience required.

If you've been CLI-curious but didn't know where to start, this one's for you.

GUEST BIO (Peer Grønnerup) 👤

Peer is a Data & AI professional with 15+ years of experience in BI, semantic modeling, and data platform automation. As Head of Engineering at Tabular Editor, he focuses on building tools and features that help teams create better data models faster, with a strong emphasis on automation, developer experience, and CI/CD, including leading the development of the new Tabular Editor CLI.

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Understand DAX Context in Power BI: CALCULATE, Filter Context & Row Context (Part 2)

Video by: Reid Havens

The single biggest concept separating DAX beginners from confident report builders is context. This interactive guide breaks down how Power BI evaluates every formula you write: what filter context is, how CALCULATE manipulates it, the difference between row context and filter context, how context transition bridges the two, and why iterator functions like SUMX create their own row context. If CALCULATE has ever confused you, start here.

Topics covered:

• The mental model shift: why DAX doesn't think like Excel

• Query context: how rows and columns shape evaluation

• Filter context: slicers, relationships, and implicit filters

• CALCULATE: overriding, replacing, and adding filter arguments

• Row context: calculated columns, iterators, and the current row

• Context transition: what happens when CALCULATE meets row context

• Iterator functions: SUMX, AVERAGEX, and row-by-row evaluation

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[DAX] Lib - From Zero to Community Hero (with Jake Duddy)

LIVESTREAM DATE/TIME 📅

MAY 15TH 2026 (Pacific Time)

DESCRIPTION 📄

User-defined functions landed in DAX last September, and SQLBI launched DAXLib alongside them as a community repo for sharing libraries. There are already 30+ packages people can pull straight into their models. If you've built a UDF that made your own life easier, odds are someone else is working around the same problem.

This stream is about closing that gap. Jake Duddy joins me to walk through what it actually takes to turn a working UDF into a published DAXLib package that other people can install and use. Jake recently contributed EvaluationContext.Colour (a HEX manipulation library for SVG and conditional formatting work), so he's been through the workflow recently and has the bruises to show for it.

What we'll cover:

• DAXLib: what it is and why SQLBI built it

• Model-independent vs model-dependent functions, and which belong in a library

• Packaging a UDF for publication

• Submitting through GitHub

• What separates a useful contribution from noise

• Q&A throughout

GUEST BIO (Jake Duddy)👤

Jake Duddy is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Power BI SME based in Birmingham, UK. He runs the Evaluation Context blog covering Power BI, Fabric, DAX, and SSAS, and speaks regularly at SQLBits, the Power BI & Fabric Summit, and the Microsoft Data Platform Group Birmingham. Links to DAXLib, Jake's blog, and his EvaluationContext.Colour library are in the comments. #PowerBI #DAX #MicrosoftFabric #DAXLib #UDF

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Master DAX Foundations in Power BI: Calculations, Data Models & Filter Flow (Part 1)

Video by: Reid Havens

Start thinking in DAX instead of Excel. This interactive guide walks through everything you need to build a mental model for Power BI calculations: what DAX actually is, how measures differ from calculated columns, table and column references, star schema basics, and how filters flow from dimension to fact tables. Part 1 of a 3 part DAX Fundamentals series.

Topics covered:

• Excel formulas vs DAX: what changes and why

• Measures vs calculated columns: when to use each

• DAX syntax: table references, column references, and measure calls

• Star schema: fact tables, dimension tables, and relationships

• Filter flow: how slicers and relationships shape your results

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