This brief explains how Multiplexing may impact the licensing needs of Microsoft customers. “Multiplexing” is any method (for example, hardware, software, or automation) used to: pool connections or ...

Snowflake's Horizon Context and Cortex Sense give agents a shared definition of business logic, targeting hybrid retrieval failures at the catalog layer.

Many organizations still rely on on‑premises SQL Server for core operational workloads — finance, billing, ERP, manufacturing, and regulatory systems — that cannot be easily migrated to the cloud. At ...

This is going to sound strange, but one of the things I like about tuning Power BI DirectQuery semantic models is that their generally-slower performance and the fact you can see the SQL queries that ...

The raw CIA World Factbook changed format at least 10 times between 1990 and 2025. Every script in etl/ exists because a previous version of the parser broke on a new year's data. The pipeline handles ...

Every data engineering team right now is being asked the same question: "How do we build a chatbot that talks to our data?" The prototypes are deceptively simple. A developer connects GPT-5.1 to a ...

This article tells you how to install the template app for the Power BI Release Plan report, and how to connect to the data source. :::image type="content" source ...

With data becoming the backbone of informed decision-making, businesses need effective tools to visualize and analyze this information. Power BI and Tableau are two of the most popular business ...

This week, I traveled to Sweden to speak at the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (Fabcon EU), which was a showcase of Microsoft's continued investments in the Fabric ...

If you’re performance tuning a DirectQuery mode semantic model in Power BI, one of the first things you’ll want to do is look at the SQL that Power BI is generating. That’s easy if you have ...