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Writing on Power BI / Fabric governance, model optimization, and what's new in Measure Killer.

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Measure Killer Power BI reports tab - Broken visuals column showing the count per report, page, and visual
Power BI Jun 18, 2026 · 5 min read

How to find broken visuals in Power BI

Broken visuals show users an error, not data — and nobody tells the owner. Find every one in your tenant, hidden pages included, with the exact reason it broke.
Measure Killer Semantic models tab - every model in the tenant with the # of DAX errors column
Power BI Jun 18, 2026 · 5 min read

How to find semantic models with broken DAX (measures, columns, tables)

Broken DAX hides — it surfaces as a broken visual or wrong number later. Find every model with failing measures, columns, or tables across your tenant.
TMDL view of the CustomerName column with relatedColumnDetails and groupByColumn set to CustomerID
Tutorials Jun 17, 2026 · 3 min read

How to set the GroupByColumn property using TMDL view in Power BI

Duplicate customer names get summed into one row in Power BI. GroupByColumn fixes it — the exact TMDL view syntax, including the indentation AI tools get wrong.
Measure Killer Power BI reports tab - searching for qnaVisual and map visuals across all reports in the tenant
Power BI May 26, 2026 · 5 min read

How to find every deprecated Power BI visual in your tenant (Map, Filled Map, Q&A)

Microsoft is deprecating the Map, Filled Map, and Q&A visuals (Q&A breaks in Dec 2026). Here's how to find every affected report across your tenant in time.
Measure Killer Model similarity details - attribute-by-attribute comparison between two semantic models with similarity percentages per attribute
Product Apr 29, 2026 · 4 min read

Finding duplicate semantic models in Power BI and Fabric

Side-by-side TMDL diffs break past two models. A similarity score across tables, columns, measures, and relationships finds every near-duplicate model at once.
Measure Killer Report similarity details - attribute-by-attribute comparison between two Power BI reports with similarity percentages per attribute
Product Apr 8, 2026 · 3 min read

Finding similar or duplicate reports in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric

Report sprawl is classic self-service tech debt. A similarity score across pages, visuals, filters, and bookmarks turns it into something you can clean up.
Measure Killer main window showing implicit measure findings after analyzing a Power BI model
Power BI Mar 18, 2026 · 6 min read

How to identify reports with implicit measures in Power BI

Implicit measures slow you down and break governance. Two ways to find them across your reports - one with a text editor, one with Measure Killer.
A complex Power BI model with many tables and relationships - the kind of model where Table Relations helps
Power BI Mar 4, 2026 · 3 min read

How to find all ways that a table can filter another table in Power BI

Understand filter propagation in complex Power BI models. Measure Killer's Table Relations feature identifies all relationship chains connecting any two tables.