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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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,…
Read More »PASS Summit 2020 – Pre-conference Sessions
One of the great features of the PASS Summit is the pre-conference sessions. These are day long sessions on a specific topic. Occurrences are on the Monday and Tuesday of the conference. Monday has nine sessions and Tuesday…
Read More »Power BI – Reviewing Impact
While deploying a Power BI report with a new tab, the following screen appeared: I decided to click on the link View impact and it brought me to my Workspace with another view of the impact the changes…
Read More »Personalize Visual in Power BI
The April release of Power BI Desktop enables end users to change visualization types on a deployed report in the server. This an interesting feature that should turn some heads, but might cause confusion. The product and development…
Read More »Query Store follow up – PASS Performance Marathon
Here are some answers to questions from PASS Performance Marathon presentation on Query Store: An Introduction 1. To turn on/off Query Store, will it impact DB availability? (meaning DB does not need to be offline) No, turning off…
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