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 ...

CONFRONTING THE IRANIAN REGIME: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order reaffirming the ongoing national emergency with respect to Iran and establishing a process to impose tariffs ...

Every time someone orders food online, checks exam results, or streams a video, new data is created and saved. Behind these activities are large databases that store millions of records. These ...

Question: Franklin Park, a few blocks east of downtown, is one of Bloomington’s most beautiful parks. If a proposal facing the state legislature back in the 1860s had not failed, what would be there ...

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

At the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, President Donald Trump took a moment to bring up his late Uncle John, a professor of ...

High-resolution professional photos of a meeting among three European leaders do not show a bag of powder on the table in front of them. The official X account for the French presidency said the item ...

I've identified a pattern of redundant joins when querying across multiple fact tables using a time spine for conformance. Employing a time spine for this purpose is a fairly standard approach in ...

Global energy use surged in 2024, and a new report from the International Energy Agency offers the clearest picture yet of why. In its new Global Energy Review, the IEA reports that global energy ...