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If you're new to Power BI, or want to introduce the rest of your team to ways they can go quickly from data to insight to action, you won't want to miss Wednesday's Dashboard in an Hour webinar! Dashb ... Read more

The Public Preview of the Office 365 Adoption Content Pack combines the intelligence of the Office 365 usage reports that are available for you in the admin center with the interactive analysis capabi ... Read more

While preparing blog posts last week, the following message appeared in my browser window. I was in the Azure portal when the message appeared. It’s not an error with Azure or the browser. It could ha ... Read more

Today at the Preakness horse racing event, Classic Empire dominated and led the race appearing to be the certain winner with Always Dreaming staying a close second and appearing to be a possible conte ... Read more

Microsoft has released the following Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2016 (RTM and SP1).   Cumulative Update 6 for SQL Server 2016 RTM KB 4019914 Download Build number: 13.0.2204.0 SQL Rel ... Read more

As I wrote in Parsing SSIS Catalog Messages for Lookup Performance, v2 : I prefer to passively gather performance metrics – even if it’s a little convoluted and more work (for me). I don’t often need ... Read more

Data IS Life…and “Life, Uh, Finds A Way.” P3 friends…for those of you in the know (and for those who aren’t), Power Query (or PQ for short) is one of the cornerstones of the Microsoft BI Suite. It’s a ... Read more

Microsoft's Guy in a Cube has been providing tips and tricks for Power BI and Business Intelligence on his YouTube channel since 2014. Occasionally on Thursdays we highlight a different helpful vi ... Read more

Check out the demos at SAPPHIRENOW -- seeing is believing! Read more

When I worked for Microsoft giving presentations on data platform products, it was a common occurrence to have people tell me that they didn’t know how to use Power BI. This is the first in a series o ... Read more

I am honored to present Use Biml to Automate SSIS Design Patterns at SQL Saturday 620 – Dublin 17 Jun! Abstract Perhaps you’ve heard the buzz about Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) and won ... Read more

If you are using SSAS Multidimensional and you use Process Update to process your dimensions, here’s something for you to try: run a Process Default on your cube. Does it finish in a few seconds? Then ... Read more

Join us this morning at 10 a.m. PT for the webinar, Simply Compelling - Seven Tips to Better Visualization Design, presented by Miranda Li. Today she'll be presenting an introduction to visualization ... Read more

An overview of Bill McDermott's keynote presentation at SAP's SAPPHIRENOW user conference, including the launch of the new SAP Leonardo digital transformation system. Read more