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

Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

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

So many cool Fabric features get announced at Fabcon that it’s easy to miss some of them. The fact that you can now not only generate Excel files from Fabric Dataflows Gen2, but that you have so much ...

Abstract: Privacy-preserving collaborative data analysis is a popular research direction in recent years. Among all such analysis tasks, privacy-preserving SQL ...

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 ...

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New laptops with ARM processors (such as some Surface models) run older software through an emulation layer, which can cause Power Query to crash. Installing the native ARM64 version of Office allows ...

The ability to write parts of SQL queries in natural language will help developers speed up their work, analysts say. Google is previewing a new AI-driven feature in its BigQuery data warehouse that ...

To make it easier to pull a .csv or .txt file directly into Excel without having to deal with Power Query, Microsoft is introducing two new import functions. Microsoft is making two new Import ...