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 ...

If company data is stored with a cloud provider, they usually handle encryption. However, for confidential data, you should ...

The hyperscalers were quick to support AI agents and the Model Context Protocol. Use these official MCP servers from the major cloud providers to automate your cloud operations.

When you take a close look at your monthly Azure bill, the likelihood is that the single biggest line item will be Compute.

Azure outage affected global industries, including airlines and airports Microsoft 365 services impacted by Azure configuration change Outage follows recent Amazon AWS disruption, highlighting tech ...

Microsoft was hit with an outage affecting its Azure and 365 services hours before the company was scheduled to report quarterly results. "We are investigating an issue with the Azure Portal where ...

The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...

Journal Editorial Report: The Fed Chief signals rate cuts are coming. As we saw during the Covid pandemic, lab-created experiments can wreak havoc when they escape their confines. Once released, they ...

Hi, I recently upgraded an Azure Functions app from in-process to isolated-process and have started to have a problem where messages are getting dequeued twice even though I don't appear to have any ...

At Ignite 2024, Microsoft announced a new hybrid and edge computing platform branded as Azure Local. Built on the solid foundation of Azure Arc, Azure Local aims to bridge the gap between on-premises ...