Blogger, Speaker, wannabe guitarist & basketball player and also, a Data & AI Specialist at Microsoft

Charlotte, NC
Joined January 2010
The new @MSPowerBI release supports Delta Sharing, the open source vendor-independent data sharing protocol we launched with partners! Any Power BI user can connect to shared data without installing other software, so providers can reach more users faster. powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/…
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A lot of recent chatter and great points in this post, but I hope you take from all of it that you don't need to string together different tools for stream processing, ML, ETL, and data warehouse workloads. You can just standardize on (Azure) Databricks. sprou.tt/1ujSPRhjmDc
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If you love the #PowerBI monthly updates, then you will be delighted with the new monthly blog for #AzureSynapse! Check it out bit.ly/2XFtAmo. Did you know Synapse Spark was twice as fast as Apache?
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We are so excited to be launching #Goals in #PowerBI in public preview today! Goals is a modern goal tracking solution that enables teams to easily create, align on and collaboratively track their organizational goals & outcomes. Learn more here powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/…
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Here’s a potentially useful #PowerBI visual. PureViz let’s you export an SVG based on something you design in POWERPOINT and use it in Power BI. pureviz.net/infographic
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Yes! @MSPowerBI Premium Per User is here at a price of $20 per user, per month. Join the #PowerBI team during #MSIgnite to learn more powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/…
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Announcing Data Platform WIT Day, March 5th..11 awesome all women speakers, a full day of free training ...sign up now! wit.sqlugs.com/2021/02/04/__…
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An amazing read about Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine. It's of these gems that are informative and contain a good dose of humor (AAAAA ending joke made my day) berthub.eu/articles/posts/re…
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Have data in Delta Lake format? Want to read it directly with #PowerBI (ie without additional cloud compute)? blog.gbrueckl.at/2021/01/rea…
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Time to unveil the next great #PaginatedReports blog from one of the PM's on my team - nextstepbi.com/ He's been redoing blogposts from @SQLJason (with Jason's full support) for paginated reports in #PowerBI , and has three entries already. Check it out!
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There is no reason you should be using Robinhood after today.
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Did you know that you can schedule a SQL query on top of your data lake (or really any data source) and set an alert based on the query results all in Azure Databricks? docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azu…
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Sure, you're getting small multiples and composite models... but did you see how gorgeous anomalies will look on your mobile? 😃😃#askingtherealquestions #powerbi #ai powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/…
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You can now combine #PowerBI datasets with imported data in the same data model!!!
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Large models in Power BI Premium is GA! Remember XMLA write operations can be *much faster* powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/… via @MSPowerBI
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Use @MSPowerBI with @Azure Purview to achieve better data governance and discovery powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/…
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We have made it really easy for customers to leverage the SQL IaaS extension for SQL Server on Azure VMs which gives you benefits like FREE HADR licenses, configuration assistance and wizards for setting up HADR. docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azu… #sqlserver #azure #sqlservervm
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