Chris Webb's BI Blog

Power BI, Parallelism And Dependencies Between SQL Queries In DirectQuery Mode

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 ...

dbForge 2025.3: AI Assistant in SQL Complete, Expanded Connectivity, and Smarter SQL Workflows

Forge 2025.3 adds AI Assistant to SQL Complete, supports SSMS 22, Visual Studio 2026, MySQL 9.5, MariaDB 12.2, and ...
IEEE

A Hash Table Without Hash Functions, and How to Get the Most Out of Your Random Bits

Abstract: This paper considers the basic question of how strong of a probabilistic guarantee can a hash table, storing $n(1+\Theta(1))\log n$-bit key/value pairs ...
GitHub

DIY Tools MCP Server

The DIY Tools MCP server enables you to dynamically add custom tools without needing to write a full MCP server. Simply provide the function code, parameters schema, and the server handles the rest - ...
IEEE

M-SQL: Multi-Task Representation Learning for Single-Table Text2sql Generation

Abstract: Text2SQL can help non-professionals connect with databases by turning natural languages into SQL. Although previous researches about Text2SQL have provided some workable solutions, most of ...