Promising that developers can "save weeks of development effort," Microsoft today answered their request for database project support in Visual Studio to target Azure SQL Data Warehouse projects.

With the SQL Server Business Intelligence Toolkit it has never been easier to get a BI project off the ground. Skunk works can offer a rapid, agile approach to building and evolving functional BI ...

Data work in 2026 asks for more than chart building. Professionals are expected to clean data, query databases, explain trends, and present findings clearly across business, finance, product, and ...

One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around SQL ...

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

As with any large, critical systems-development project, planning and coordination are paramount. We're not suggesting that those undertaking major BI projects skip those critical planning steps. The ...