As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...

Microsoft's business intelligence (BI) strategy for years has been all over the place. No one can argue the sheer number of BI tools Microsoft offers -- from SQL Server and SharePoint on the back-end, ...

Microsoft today announced an update to Power BI for Office 365 preview and Power BI in Excel. The former has received natural language search through Q&A while the latter, which consists of two Power ...

Microsoft claims you no longer need to hire expensive Power BI optimization experts. With Copilot, a task that took days could now be done in minutes.

In July, Microsoft announced plans for a public preview of a new suite of business intelligence tools, known as Power BI for Office 365. On September 25, Microsoft added a few new capabilities to that ...

Data can feel overwhelming, especially when it’s scattered across spreadsheets, databases, and countless other sources. If you’ve ever stared at rows of numbers, wondering how to make sense of it all, ...

Learn how to use Excel Power Query's extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components with this step-by-step tutorial. If you need a complete list of Microsoft ...

Today, Microsoft is announcing new features in Power BI that do just that, enabling the same business analysts who can use Power BI for self-service analytics to integrate machine learning models ...

Master non-destructive edits, troubleshoot errors, and document your logic to build resilient, automated Power Query ...