by MichaelaIsaacs | Oct 13, 2026 | Power BI
Microsoft is updating our Amazon Redshift connector to use the new Amazon Redshift ODBC 2.x driver. What’s new and why upgrade This post first appeared...
by Chris Webb | Oct 11, 2026 | Chris Webb
As a follow-on from last week’s post about the new ApproximateDistinctCount function in DAX, I want to share something I found out from my recent testing for this function: ApproximateDistinctCount is sometimes slower than DistinctCount. This sounds counter-intuitive,...
by Chris Webb | Oct 4, 2026 | Chris Webb
As you’ve probably seen in the blog post for the September 2026 release of Power BI, Import mode and Direct Lake mode semantic models now support the ApproximateDistinctCount() DAX function. I tested its performance on a Direct Lake semantic model with a 1.4 billion...
by wadecb | Sep 30, 2026 | Power BI
If you haven’t already, check out FabCon and SQLCon 2026 in Barcelona: Building the data foundation for Microsoft Copilot and Agents for a complete look at all of our FabCon Europe announcements across Fabric and Microsoft Databases. Advancing an open,...
by mohammadali | Sep 29, 2026 | Power BI
If you haven’t already, check out FabCon and SQLCon 2026 in Barcelona: Building the data foundation for Microsoft Copilot and Agents for a complete look at all of our FabCon Europe announcements across Fabric and Microsoft Databases. More than a decade ago, I...
