Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...

Direct Lake mode in Power BI allows you to build semantic models on very large volumes of data, but because it is still an in-memory database engine there are limits on how much data it can work with.

Since Github doesn't provide a great way for you to learn about new releases and features, don't just star the repo, join the mailing list. dsq will likely work on other platforms that Go is ported to ...

After announcing support for Cosmos DB inside the Microsoft Fabric data platform at Build 2025, Microsoft recently opened a public preview of the new service. This release gives Cosmos DB a new role ...

EXCLUSIVE Support for AMD's Instinct GPUs is coming to Voltron Data's accelerated SQL engine Theseus in the latest sign Nvidia's CUDA moat is getting shallower. Introduced in late 2023, Theseus — ...

With a combined market value of around $150 billion, Snowflake and Databricks have divergent visions on how to get customers' analytics and machine learning tools to their data, which is often spread ...

This is an example script for creating an EXTERNAL TABLE with various file formats. This script is an example of the usage of various file formats such as Parquet, DELTA, CSV, JSON, ORC, and more. See ...

Amazon S3 Tables deliver up to 3x faster query performance and up to 10x higher transactions per second for analytics workloads; Amazon S3 Metadata delivers queryable object metadata in near real time ...

After speaking at the European Fabric Community Conference last month, I followed it up with the Dataminds Connect event in Mechelen, Belgium, in early October. As a longtime conference speaker, I ...