One of the great things about the clouds is that it makes existing good technology even better and in the case of the Azure stack, also much more simpler. One example that came to mind this week was Entity Framework after reading that it now works with CosmosDB, albeit still in beta and for the … More Create a RESTful Web Service for SQL Server using OData with Entity Framework
Like most modern servers nowadays, Power BI has a fairly good set of web APIs that developers can leverage to extend functionalities of the product and further automate many processes. The developer’s section of the documentation provides an easy to follow set of instructions on how to get started and showcases some very useful feature … More Power BI REST API
I’m my opinion, there’s no doubt Tableau is still the best and well ahead of everyone when it comes to visualization in terms of looks, functionality and ease. But that’s true only on the client side and as we know, BI is so much more than this … More PowerBI: Integration with Azure, Googles and other Web Services using JavaScripts
If you’ve been following the recent developments for SQL Server, you’ve probably noticed Microsoft is not only bringing more and more features onto the platform but also increasingly encouraging developers to extend the base functionalities through integration with other programming languages including those outside the core .Net languages of C# and VB.Net. … More CLR Integration: Bringing functionality and productivity to SQL Server
There’s a little tool that’s been around for years but still largely unknown outside the software engineering space-the legendary Linqpad by Perth based engineer/author Joseph Albahari. … More Linqpad-The Developers’ Playground
It’s funny how Essbase was once considered one of the premier BI tool on the market and nowadays don’t even get a mention in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. … More Interrogating and automation of Essbase cubes with Essbase Web Services and C#
