Understanding Fabric MCP
Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is one of those technical ideas that sounds more complicated than it really is. The easiest way to think about it is this: MCP...
2026-05-05 (first published: 2026-05-04)
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James Serra's Blog
GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
There’s a question I’ve been hearing more and more lately, especially as Copilot, Fabric, and Fabric data agents become part of everyday conversations with customers: will GenAI replace reports...
2026-05-06 (first published: 2026-04-23)
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The OneLake catalog in Fabric: Explore, Govern, Secure
Once your Fabric tenant grows past a few workspaces, data discovery gets weird fast. Duplicates multiply. People stop trusting what they find. And security teams start hearing things like,...
2026-04-14
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Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference
A ton of new features for Microsoft Fabric were announced at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon Atlanta 26) last week (see the FabCon keynote here). There were 8000 attendees! Here...
2026-04-08 (first published: 2026-03-26)
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T-SQL Tuesday #196 Roundup: What career risks have you taken?
I hosted this month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation in which I asked, “What career risks have you taken?” I got some great responses which I’ll recap here, Career risks? Rob...
2026-03-17
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Semantic Model Power Query vs Dataflow Gen2 in Fabric
In my recent blog post, Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric, I talked about the evolving authoring experience in Microsoft Fabric and how report development is increasingly moving...
2026-03-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
I’m honored to be hosting T-SQL Tuesday — edition #192. For those who may not know the history, T-SQL Tuesday started back in December 2009 when Adam Machanic (Blog |LinkedIn)...
2026-03-03
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Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
Why this comparison feels confusing If you’re a Power BI report author who’s just getting into Microsoft Fabric, you’ve probably asked the same question I hear over and over:...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-02-26)
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Making Sense of Microsoft’s AI Strategy: Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ
A few weeks ago, I found myself staring at a slide full of new Microsoft AI names and thinking… wait a second. Work IQ. Fabric IQ. Foundry IQ. Agent...
2026-02-12
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Three Ways to Use Snowflake Data in Microsoft Fabric
Organizations increasingly want Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric to coexist without duplicating data or fragmenting governance. With Fabric OneLake and open table formats like Iceberg and Delta, there are now...
2026-02-09 (first published: 2026-01-29)
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PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
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The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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