Learn how to optimize SQL queries for business intelligence (BI) by following some best practices and techniques that can improve the speed, accuracy, and quality of your data analysis.

My post earlier this year on enabling query folding when using SQL queries as a data source in Power Query provoked a lot of interest. This post adds one more useful detail: how to preserve the ...

A few months ago a new option was added to the Sql.Database and Sql.Databases functions in Power Query in Power BI and Excel which allows Power Query queries that combine data from different SQL ...

Open Power BI Desktop. Go to Home > Get Data > SQL Server. Fill in: Server: YOUR_SERVER_NAME (e.g., localhost\MSSQLSERVER01) Database: leave blank or enter master; Expand Advanced options. Paste the ...

A Toronto-based business intelligence ... president of SQL Power Group Inc. ... Eventually, users might transition to running queries themselves, ...