Cloudfide’s Business Intelligence newsletter / Week 42–43, 2025
20 min
Sebastian Jagniątkowski
Published Oct 29, 2025
Welcome to: Cloudfide’s Business Intelligence Newsletter. We’ve prepared a curated digest of the most interesting and practical Power BI materials from the past two weeks to help you stay on top of trends and steadily sharpen your skills; below you’ll find a carefully selected list of practical and strategic resources, each entry explains why it matters, provides a concise summary, and includes a direct link so you can dive straight in.
1️⃣ How to Handle Multiple Date Columns in Power BI
Why is it interesting? Learn advanced modeling techniques using USERELATIONSHIP to handle multiple date columns and answer complex business questions with cleaner DAX.
Audience: Intermediate → Advanced
Area: Data Modeling / DAX / Relationships
2️⃣ Learn to Use Calculated Columns Effectivel
Why is it interesting? Discover why creating calculated columns in Power Query instead of DAX enables reusability across models and better performance optimization.
Audience: Beginner → Intermediate
Area: Power Query / Data Transformation / Best Practices
3️⃣ New DAX Time Intelligence Explained
Why is it interesting? Master the new calendar-based time intelligence feature that simplifies DAX for fiscal and custom calendars while future-proofing your models.
Audience: Intermediate → Advanced
Area: DAX / Time Intelligence / Calendar Tables
4️⃣ How to Build Models Online in Power BI Service:
Why is it interesting? Discover the new capability to build semantic models directly in the Power BI Service without Desktop, streamlining cloud-based development workflows.
Audience: Intermediate
Area: Semantic Models / Power BI Service / Cloud Development
5️⃣ Using VALUES in SUMMARIZE:
Why is it interesting? Learn when to use VALUES with SUMMARIZE to handle blank rows from invalid relationships and avoid common aggregation mistakes.
Audience: Intermediate → Advanced
Area: DAX / Data Modeling / Optimization
6️⃣ SQL Order of Operations Explained
Why is it interesting? Grasp how SQL processes queries step-by-step to write more efficient code and troubleshoot performance issues effectively.
Audience: Beginner → Intermediate
Area: SQL / Query Optimization / Fundamentals
7️⃣ Overcoming Initial Full-Load Failures (part 1 & part 2)
Why is it interesting? Solve common incremental refresh setup challenges with proven strategies for handling initial data loads and partition failures at scale.
Audience: Advanced
Area: Incremental Refresh / Troubleshooting / Performance
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