[BLOG] Benchmarking Power BI import speed for local data sources.#PowerBI.

*Taps the sign*.

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Registration for #SQLSaturday Pittsburgh is open! Schedule will be coming out next week. Please spread the word. If you are local and missed the CFS, please let me know.

This week Figuring out #MicrosoftFabric has Angela Henry asking ME questions about Microsoft Fabric and if you should switch. (The answer is, um, maaaaybe?). Link below

RT @emollick: Been trying the new COPILOT function in Excel, and it is interesting & useful for things like categorizing, but not sure inse….

Oh gawd, it's happening. Folks vibe coding a Power BI MCP server that can read performance traces. The perfect red herring machine.

RT @GreyskullPBI: #NewProfilePic

TIL Apache Iceberg isn't a data file format (like parquet).

I'm starting to see some of the appeal of MCP servers.

RT @emollick: AI labs have managed to grab a significant piece of the profit generated by SaaS companies. Interesting piece by @mims: htt….

Reverse engineering legacy apps is a clever AI use case.

Hell of a read.

So what's the preferred way to install an isolated copy of SQL Server CTP these days? I know like a decade ago Docker was a slick way to do it.

We are extremely lucky to have Stephanie Bruno providing a free Fabric Analyst in a Day on October 17th before our Pittsburgh #SQLSaturday. Register here:.

Using Enron emails for a realistic email dataset is hilarious.

RT @haydenfield: NEW: Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts & coding sessions, unless us….

My first interesting use case for MCP servers.

I'm going to have write a DAX parser to auto-classify certain errors, aren't I?.

So I'm pondering what benchmarking I could do to see how different LLM prompting improve DAX query success. Main ideas are disproving the "You are a data analyst expert" nonsense and testing giving it the whole schema. Any other thoughts?.