SQL Server Analysis Services Finally Coming to the Cloud!
Microsoft has announced a new cloud service in preview – SQL Server Analysis Services. This has been a glaring gap in the cloud stack for … Read More
Auditing Arrives in Preview to Power BI
Microsoft today announced the addition of new auditing capabilities within Power BI. The new features are only available in preview to United States customers for … Read More
Azure SQL Now Supports JSON Storage and Query
Microsoft has just released into General Availability support for storage and retrieval of JSON data. JSON is a convenient data format used by web sites, … Read More
Power BI Embedded Pricing Simplified as Service Becomes Generally Available
Power BI Embedded is a new service available to developers or independent software vendors to allow them to embed Power BI dashboards into their applications. … Read More
Microsoft Adds Excel Support to the Office 365 REST API
Microsoft has added support for interacting with Excel documents, formulas and reporting through the Office 365 REST API. Key scenarios that this could enable include: … Read More
Azure SQL Always Encrypted Now Generally Available
Microsoft has just announced that their “Always Encrypted” feature for Azure SQL has now been released to General Availability. Always Encrypted allows you to consistently … Read More
Azure Data Warehouse is Released to General Availability
Microsoft has just announced the release of Azure Data Warehouse to general availability. Azure DW is a fully managed data warehouse that leverages elastic and … Read More
Power BI Increases File Size Limit from 250 MB to 1 GB
Microsoft has announced that they are increasing the file size limit for files to 1 GB from 250 MB. This limit impacts any data source … Read More
Power BI Q&A Support for On Premise Data Sources Coming Soon
One of the most powerful features in Power BI is the natural language based Q&A feature. It allows end users to pose questions and receive … Read More
DataZen is Officially Dead, Customers Need to Transition to SQL 2016
Microsoft has officially killed the independent DataZen product stack with most of its features now incorporated into SQL Server 2016, SQL Server Reporting Services and … Read More