7 New Updates to the Power BI Designer Preview

We’re very glad to announce a new update for the Power BI Designer Preview. This month’s update includes new features and improvements across all major areas in the product: connectors, transformations, modeling and reports. We have also addressed lots of bugs and improved performance and stability of the Power BI Designer.

What’s New in the Power BI Designer

These update includes the following new features:

• Google Analytics connector
• Additional operators for date filtering in Query view
• Automatic Model Relationship Detection
• Enhanced Add Relationship dialog
• Report Pages Re-ordering (drag & drop)
• ~40-50% Performance Improvement filling database tables without filters/transforms
• Lots of bug fixes

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/archive/2015/03/26/7-new-updates-to-the-power-bi-designer-preview-march-2015.aspx

What's new in the Latest SQL Database Update V12 (preview)

Hi all,

 

The latest Azure SQL Database Update V12 provides nearly complete compatibility with the Microsoft SQL Server engine. The preview brings more Premium performance to customers. These enhancements help to streamline SQL Server application migrations to Azure, and help customers who have heavier database workloads.

 

Key highlights of this V12 preview include the following:

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-preview-whats-new/