Another quick post, because today is an important day for everyone working with Fabric and Power BI!
Last month,
Microsoft announced they are Sunsetting Default Semantic Models: Yaay! 😀
Today marks
that day: No more automatic child semantic models!
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| The info message also states only a SQL endpoint is created |
So now whenever you create a warehouse, lakehouse, SQL database, or mirrored database, you only will get that item, and the SQL analytics endpoint connected to it.
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| No more default semantic models! |
This means from now on you always have to manage the semantic model yourself, whenever you create one of the above items.
What about my existing default semantic models?
To be
clear: existing (default) semantic models are not affected (yet!). But by the
end of December (2025) they will be decoupled from their connected item, and
you will have to manage that model manually.
Conclusion
Now that Fabric is getting more widely used, the demand for stronger governance and greater control over semantic models was growing. This change takes away the auto/generated models and gives you more control in the creation of your semantic models.
To read
more about this:
- Take a look at the documentation of semantic models
- Or at the blog post announcing the deprecation
