Microsoft product roadmap now public
Ever wonder about Microsoft’s product roadmap? With Microsoft rapidly releases products and services, they realized the need to provide better...
2015-02-12 (first published: 2015-02-04)
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James Serra's Blog
Power BI Designer and Power BI Dashboard
Long has the question been asked “Which Microsoft tool do I use for dashboards?”. SSRS, Excel, PowerView, Report Builder and PerformancePoint...
2015-01-14
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Using Power BI to access on-premise data
The following blog describes how to use certain cloud-based Power BI for Office 365 products (Power View and Q&A) on...
2015-01-07
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU3 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU3),...
2014-12-17
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The Modern Data Warehouse
The traditional data warehouse has served us well for many years, but new trends are causing it to break in...
2014-12-10 (first published: 2014-12-03)
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What is Azure Data Factory?
The Azure Data Factory is a service designed to allow developers to integrate disparate data sources. It is a platform...
2014-11-26
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Fast Track Data Warehouse Reference Architecture for SQL Server 2014
I have previously blogged about the Fast Track Data Warehouse, a reference configuration optimized for data warehousing (see Microsoft SQL Server...
2014-11-19
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Should you move your data to the cloud?
Should you move your data to the cloud? That is the question. The answer is not simple. While moving data...
2014-11-12
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Book: Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner’s Guide
I was fortunate to be a technical reviewer for a new book, SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development by Reza...
2014-11-05
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU2 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has recently released an appliance update (AU2),...
2014-10-16
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Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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Checking the Error Log III
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