Following on from my last post covering DirectQuery in Power BI, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at the way MDX queries are supported in SSAS Tabular 2016 CTP3 DirectQuery mode. There ...

It may not be immediately obvious, but you cannot set your own connection string properties when connecting to SQL Server using the built-in SQL Server connector from either Power BI or a modern data ...

The SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview (CTP) 3.2 is now available for download! In SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.2, part of our new rapid preview model, we made enhancements to several features ...

Microsoft complements its relational database engine, SQL Server, with several add-on services that manage different aspects of enterprise business intelligence and information processing such as data ...

At Microsoft Build 2025, we announced the public preview of SQL Server 2025. Built on a foundation of best-in-class security, performance, and availability, SQL Server 2025 empowers customers to ...

This article describes a Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) crash error that occurs when disk space is exhausted on the system hosting the SSAS instance ...

Extended Event Session to track all SQL Server Login events saved to .XEL Files ETL Process to move, load, clean and aggregate the XEL trace files from remote SQL servers into a central SQL database A ...