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 ...

Google Cloud has recently announced the preview of a global queries feature for BigQuery. The new option lets developers run ...

Safe coding is a collection of software design practices and patterns that allow for cost-effectively achieving a high degree ...

Every few months, someone discovers the Google Sheets QUERY function and has the same reaction: why did nobody tell me about this? Here is what it does and why it changes how you work with data.

Perplexity announced Computer for Enterprise at its Ask 2026 developer conference, launching a multi-model AI agent with Slack integration, Snowflake connectors, and 20 orchestrated AI models to ...

But that instinct can mislead us. AI feels like a bubble because we’re forcing something genuinely discontinuous into a ...

Boston’s chief information officer on a pioneering experiment leveraging AI to expand the public’s access to government. The next wave of AI will be defined by agentic systems that can take actions: ...

Central to Collate’s new capabilities is the launch of AI Studio , which enables enterprises to build, deploy, customize, and tune AI agents to their unique data environments. AI Studio provides a ...

In 2025, hackers stopped using muskets and started using AI machine guns. If your defense strategy still relies on manual human response, you're already a casualty.

Excel table formulas shift from cell positions to named columns with #All-style tags, keeping calculations readable when layouts change.

I have been spending a lot of time recently investigating the new performance-related features that have rolled out in Fabric Dataflows over the last few months, so expect a lot of blog posts on ...