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Power BI Summit April 19-32 (Virtual)

The next virtual summit coming up is April 19-23, 2021. It is called Power BI Summit and is hosted by Radacad. There are MVPs, Microsoft employees and Power BI experts from all around the world sharing almost every…

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Power BI XMLA Endpoint Read/Write GA

On Jan 5th, it was announced that Power BI Premium supports Read/Write XMLA endpoints is now GA. This allows tools to connect to and manage the analysis services engine in Power BI Premium. This goes a long way…

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Power BI Deployment Pipelines

  Not too long ago, Microsoft release a deployment pipeline for Power BI. This is really exciting stuff and goes along with the trend in the DevOps world. What is nice to, is was built from the ground…

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PASS Virtual Summit 2020 – Nov 9-13

This summit offers 2 days of pre-conference sessions plus 3 days or regular (75 minute or 2 hour) sessions. It runs through all time zones and can be watched for 1 year. This is no pressure to figure…

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Power BI Premium Per User License

Microsoft announced the ability to have a Per User license for Power BI Premium. It does not look like it is available, yet, but here are some of the highlights of changes from Pro license. 1. Increased capacity…

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PASS Summit Day 1 Keynote

Again, the PASS Summit is blessed to have Rohan Kumar speaking on Day 1 of the Virtual Summit 2020. Rohan is the Corporate Vice President of Azure Data at Microsoft and is a favorite at PASS Summit. I…

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Azure Synapse Analytics

Microsoft is great at adding features and improving performance with many of their products. The previous named product Azure SQL DW became Azure Synapse Analytics recently and is in GA. There is another Azure Synapse Analytics around the…

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PASS Virtual Summit 2020 – More General Sessions

The General Session initial (or community selected) list has been released. These are the sessions submitted by speakers from across the world. The selected list is the best possible variety of sessions that the PASS Program Community feels…

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PASS 2020 Virtual Summit – Microsoft Premium Sponsor

Toward the end of June, PASS announced Microsoft as a Premium sponsor for the 2020 PASS Virtual Summit. What does that mean? Here are 3 things: 1.  1:1 virtual meetings – Microsoft Azure Data Clinic. Having Microsoft at…

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PASS Summit 2020 Going Virtual

Apparently due to Covid-19, the PASS Summit 2020 will not be live in Houston, TX. This is disappointing but necessary because of circumstances. Many were interested to see the affects of moving the Summit to another city. So,…

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