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 ...

Microsoft's business intelligence (BI) strategy for years has been all over the place. No one can argue the sheer number of BI tools Microsoft offers -- from SQL Server and SharePoint on the back-end, ...

Prep Data in No Time With This $10 Power BI Boot Camp This online course on Power Query and other Excel tools is a must-have for anyone working with data.

Microsoft today announced an update to Power BI for Office 365 preview and Power BI in Excel. The former has received natural language search through Q&A while the latter, which consists of two Power ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a sprawling Excel workbook, wondering if you’re using the right tool for the job? Between Power Query, Power Pivot, and VBA, it’s easy to feel like you’re ...

Learn how to use Excel Power Query's extract and split column features to extract delimited strings into their components with this step-by-step tutorial. If you need a complete list of Microsoft ...

Data can feel overwhelming, especially when it’s scattered across spreadsheets, databases, and countless other sources. If you’ve ever stared at rows of numbers, wondering how to make sense of it all, ...

Today, Microsoft is announcing new features in Power BI that do just that, enabling the same business analysts who can use Power BI for self-service analytics to integrate machine learning models ...

In July, Microsoft announced plans for a public preview of a new suite of business intelligence tools, known as Power BI for Office 365. On September 25, Microsoft added a few new capabilities to that ...