Chris Webb's BI Blog

Power BI And Support For Third Party Semantic Models

The first thing to make clear is that the reasons why Power BI doesn’t work properly with other semantic models are purely ...
Redmondmag.com

Microsoft Expands Azure Database Cost-Saving Options with New Cross-Service Savings Plans

Microsoft’s new Azure database savings plans promise more flexible, cross-service cost reductions than traditional reservations, giving IT teams another lever to manage rising cloud database spend ...
Chris Webb's BI Blog

Role-Playing Dimensions In Fabric Direct Lake Semantic Models Revisited

A workaround to allow you to create multiple tables in a Direct Lake semantic model linked to the same table in OneLake ...

Datris.ai Launches the First Data Platform Built Around MCP as Open Source

Open-source platform with 30+ MCP tools lets AI agents autonomously create pipelines, query databases, search vector ...
ITWeb on MSN

Preparing for the SQL Server 2025 era – Ascent’s guidance

Preparing for the SQL Server 2025 era – Ascent’s guidanceIssued by Ascent TechnologyJohannesburg, 01 Apr 2026 Preparing for the SQL Server 2025 era – Ascent’s guidance. Prepare for the SQL Server 2025 ...

Microsoft Fabric Database Hub only a 'partial' solution for admins

Could help break silos, but users should take wait-and-see approach to system limited to Microsoft DBs and DBaaS ...
Security Boulevard

Microsoft’s March Security Update of High-Risk Vulnerability Notice for Multiple Products

Overview On March 11, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released the March Security Update patch, which fixed 83 security issues involving widely used products such as Windows, Microsoft Office, ...
marktechpost

Google Colab Now Has an Open-Source MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server: Use Colab Runtimes with GPUs from Any Local AI Agent

Google has officially released the Colab MCP Server, an implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that enables AI agents to interact directly with the Google Colab environment. This ...
Digi Times

Wistron eyes sales model shift as AI server volume squeezes margins

Wistron Group posted record revenue and earnings per share in 2025, driven by strong demand for AI servers. Still, its gross margin fell as higher unit prices and material costs tied to increased ...
The Next Web

Rise of model context protocol in the agentic era

We have all heard about model context protocol (MCP) in the context of artificial intelligence. In this article, we will dive into what MCP is and why it is becoming more important by the day. When ...
Forbes

Microsoft Confirms SQL Zero-Day Security Vulnerability—Here’s The Fix

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The Microsoft Security Response Center has confirmed that a SQL Server elevation of ...
Computer Weekly

Microsoft patches zero-days in .NET and SQL Server

Two zero-day flaws in the form of a denial of service (DoS) issue in .NET and an elevation of privilege (EoP) issue in SQL Server top the agenda for security teams in Microsoft’s latest monthly Patch ...