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Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on December 1st (Migrating Semantic Models to Fabric Direct Lake)

Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for our next meeting on Monday, December 1st at 18:30 ET. I'll show you how to Fabric DirectLake semantic models can help you tackle long refresh cycles and scalability headaches. And your humble correspondent will walk you through some of the latest Power BI and Fabric enhancements. Improving will sponsor the meeting. For more details and sign…

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SaaS Losers and Winners: Paylocity and Element

“We are sailing to Philadelphia A world away from the coaly Tyne Sailing to Philadelphia To draw the line The Mason-Dixon line” “Sailing to Philadelphia”, Mark Knopfler As I’ve said in the past, I consider it a travesty when a SaaS provider disallows direct access to the data in its native storage, such as by ODBC and OLE DB providers, and force you to use…

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