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 ...

I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 minutes ...

A Toronto-based business intelligence (BI) software vendor is giving the frontline worker a tool they can actually use with the newly released enterprise edition of Wabit, which follows the March ...

Merge lists even with typos and inconsistent names. Tune the similarity threshold, use a transform table, and audit results before loading.

Standard Excel tools can usually get the job done, but they often lack the resilience and flexibility needed for complex data and transformation tasks. Power Query doesn't just perform these tasks ...