Alex Barbeau

Love to see announcements on SPN and CLI support! Nerds rule!

Thrilled to see the #MicrosoftFabric keynote by Amir Netz!

On the way to #fabcon2025! See me at booth 217 and my co-speaking slot Wednesday afternoon!

congrats to all the liberals calling the attacks on trans people in the U.S. "tragic but inconsequential since there aren't all that many of them" for finally finding out what they'd have done in 1930s germany

I don’t know if Herbert intended it this way but I think he’s trying to show a plot equivalent to the objective correlative concept for character’s emotions.

Yes, but also… some of the book is meant to play with the impacts of seeing the future, but imperfectly. And seeing how different characters act with partial information.

The lulz.
I hope the 32-bit build agent for Power BI Desktop gets retired with gusto come July 2025.

Jay we need 32 bit PBID till 2032!!!

There are a crazy amount of protocol drivers and such in there, so guessing some DB’s ODBC/JDBC/etc. got bigger.

Don’t forget Kusto storage for Real Time Intelligence!

Costs of Relationships in DAX - SQLBI The relationships in a data model queried by DAX are a fundamental part of the engine and simplify the query itself. This article examines the cost of relat

The simple version is public, that book has way more details than other sources.
This blog post covers implementation nuances and touches a bit on the internals:

www.sqlbi.com/articles/cos...

Actually I’ll just put them here.
Alberto Ferrari & Marco Russo (2024) Optimizing DAX. SQLBI Corp. Chapter 11-12.

Sure thing! I’ll DM you some technical book references shortly.

Forgot to point out this doesn’t apply for CCI in SQL Server or Synapse, just the read heavy analytics focused implementations of VertiPaq.

Another thing to note is that VertiPaq handles joins through pre-computed hashmaps (called relationships) that are rebuilt anytime a table in the join changes. The hashmap sits in the CPU cache and this avoids regular join perf concerns. Another read-focused design choice.

I will continue to protect my friends and framily.

At least it vaguely means something, unlike the advertising world madness of calling adtech “programmatic”some years back.

I hate it, yet love it.

I expect it has wider usage than Goals at least

Our institutions failed, our leaders failed, our laws failed, but ultimately there's no denying it: the American people failed, and those who voted for this are every bit as culpable as the man himself, now and forever.

It's OK to be disgusted and horrified by them. We should be, and tell them so.

I welcome the many improvements to the tech stack… describing architectures settled before I was born as new concepts less so.

Oh lord another star schema term being “rediscovered” by software people dealing with data?

Properwhelmed

I presume this another feature that a very large customer insisted was absolutely vital to their adoption and without which they wouldn’t use Power BI.
Or is used internally by the service for some reason and they released it publicly because why not.

The output is the output as is made clear in the output.

One has to be a bit daft to succeed in data engineering

Software engineers of the world, I beg you.

Stop disabling copy and paste in password fields.

Sincerely,

Someone with non-human memorable 20+ character passwords generated by a password manager.

Without alignment from the new acquisition’s internal DNS team we simply can’t determine an enterprise standard for server names or tags.

Nah gotta have 30 meetings about tags and tag approvals and tag meetings and then do nothing because cross functional alignment wasn’t tagged.