Chris Webb's BI Blog

ApproximateDistinctCount In Power BI Is Sometimes Slower Than DistinctCount

As a follow-on from last week’s post about the new ApproximateDistinctCount function in DAX, I want to share something I found out from my recent testing for this function: ApproximateDistinctCount is ...
Chris Webb's BI Blog

The Problem With Approximate Distinct Counts In Power BI – And How To Solve It

As you’ve probably seen in the blog post for the September 2026 release of Power BI, Import mode and Direct Lake mode semantic models now support the ApproximateDistinctCount() DAX function. I tested ...

Numbers were frozen on the day of publication—The 'query as viewer' method added by Amazon Quick and the 9 points of caution raised by the official source｜A…

What you will learn in this article・The official AWS blog (AWS Machine Learning Blog, published October 1, 2026) announced ...
konsulteer.com

Amazon Ads Opens Expert AI Tools to Third-Party Agents for Complex Campaign Work

Amazon Ads is adding specialized Expert Tools to its MCP Server, allowing third-party AI agents to perform more complex ...
GitHub

cpp-code-example-app-connect-access-sql-db.md

In this quickstart, you build a C++ console application on Windows, Linux, or macOS. The application connects to an `AdventureWorksLT` database by using Microsoft ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server, binds ...
aws.amazon

Microsoft SQL Server 2025 Standard on Windows Server 2025

The SQL Server Amazon Machine Images (AMI) is built, updated, and fully-patched by AWS within five business days of Microsoft's patch Tuesday (the second Tuesday of each month). Launching an instance ...
BetaNews

Microsoft's September update breaks Remote Desktop on Windows Server

Microsoft's September 2026 cumulative updates are causing Remote Desktop Services failures on Windows Server 2019, 2022 and 2025 systems, cutting off connections and, in the most severe cases, forcing ...
BleepingComputer

Microsoft: Windows Server 2025 changes causing app crashes

Microsoft warned customers last week that they may experience application crashes on some Windows Server 2025 due to recent memory management changes. This known issue affects apps that use Address ...
cybersecuritynews

CISA Warns of Microsoft SQL Server RCE Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a Microsoft SQL Server remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1068, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog ...
investors

Look To Profit From Microsoft Earnings With A Short-Term, High-Risk Trade

Microsoft (MSFT) is due to report earnings on July 29, and the options market is pricing in an 8.9% move in either direction. Let's analyze how we can structure an option trade that fits the view that ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft’s ‘Project Perception’ Could Challenge Anthropic’s Mythos in AI Security

Microsoft is reportedly developing Project Perception, a lower-cost AI security tool that would use multiple models to identify enterprise vulnerabilities. Image: GoldenDayz/Envato Microsoft is ...