Learn how Power BI’s September 2026 full-text search preview works. Configure a persisted column index, find matching feedback with TEXTCONTAINS, rank it with TEXTSIMILARITY, and avoid common setup and scoring mistakes.
Power BI Service is Microsoft’s cloud-based platform for sharing, collaborating on, and interacting with data and reports. Think of it as the online companion to Power BI Desktop. While Power BI Desktop (a free Windows app) is where analysts build data models and design reports, the Power BI Service ( app.powerbi.com ) is where you share and consume those reports, dashboards, and apps with others. In practice, you’d do your data cleanup, modelling, and report design in Desk
