Posted by
Rick Gould
on 07 February 2025
You can set basic alerts in Power BI to send emails when your data exceeds a threshold. If you need more complex responses, actions other than email or to respond to more complex data changes, you can use Power Automate to achieve this.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 February 2025
Your task for this month is to identify the singers or bands from the picture clues. Every entrant will have a chance of winning our £50 prize!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 February 2025
This month includes some pretty minor updates (such as new ways to do treemaps), but we're breaking with our usual rules to highlight two features in preview: a new way to save files and a new language called TMDL for updating models.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2025
We were as surpised as anyone to find that our February 2025 newsletter included our 50th prize-winning competition. Puzzles over the last 6 years have included word searches, logic puzzles, quizzes and much more, as this blog shows.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2025
In our Christmas newsletter we asked people to create an image through our website, which used behind-the-scenes code to generate pictures in Dall-E/ChatGPT. The results surpassed our expectations: here are some of the best pictures, together with the details of the overall winner of the competition.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2025
How did we never discover this site before? Travel into space or the ocean, use the world's most annoying password field or help spend Bill Gates's fortune, to name just 3 of the many pastimes on this amazing site.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2025
The Excel World Championship has always been an event to set the pulse racing, but now it has a theme song to match!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2025
The software application and course pages of our website are the most important ones (apart from the home page, of course). We have completely redesigned them to make them easier to use - see what you think!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 February 2025
Much has been made in the media of how the new Chinese AI tool DeepSeek rivals almost anything that the likes of ChatGPT can offer.
Does it?
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2025
Apparently Sora is named after the Japanese word for sky to signify its "limitless creative potential". In the future this may be true, but for now we were ... underwhelmed.
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 21 January 2025
This blog shows you two ways to make your slicers apply filters to other slicers in a Power BI report.
Posted by
Sam Lowrie
on 07 January 2025
This blog covers how to use Copilot to generate a geojson file that can be used in Power BI Azure maps.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 11 December 2024
Microsoft have announced the next version of their editing environment for SQL Server Management Studio, including the integration of Copilot and (finally) a dark theme.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 11 December 2024
Microsoft have announced the preview availability of SQL Server 2025, complete with the new vector field. This blog explains what a vector field is, and why you might need it.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 11 December 2024
Last month we asked you to come up with a series of Power Query transforms to massage some data into football league format, and only three people answered the call!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 10 December 2024
In what is becoming a Christmas tradition, here are a few suggestions for things to buy the nerd in your life (you?) for Christmas this year.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 10 December 2024
How good is the new ChatGPT voice mode? Listen to this six-minute conversation and you'll realise that life will never quite be the same again. I genuinely don't think this is exaggerating!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 09 December 2024
For our newsletter competition this month everyone gets one shot only at creating a perfect image in Dall-E. This blog takes a behind-the-scenes look to explain the nuts and bolts of how we used the OpenAI API to get this to work.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 09 December 2024
Now that Microsoft have finally ironed out most of the bugs from the new flow designer in Power Automate, we thought we'd share this blog on how to automate your email Christmas card procedure!
Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 09 December 2024
In an SSRS report you can display images stored in an external location. This blog explains how to show images from both the report server and external websites in your SSRS reports.