Upcoming speaking events in May (Australia)
Are you looking to boost your skills and knowledge in Database DevOps, learn how to transition to the cloud, and work across multiple databases? Join me and fellow speakers/experts...
2024-05-01
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HeyMo0sh
Interview around DevOps, Data, AI and Microsoft Fabric
A few weeks ago I did an interiview with Nagaraj Venkatesan – a good friend of mine who works for Microsoft Singapore. You can watch video below – I...
2024-04-01 (first published: 2024-03-20)
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DevOps: It’s About the Team, Not Just the Tech
In November 2023 I did a session at PASS Summit and one of my sessions was voted https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/about/news/have-you-watched-some-of-the-most-popular-sessions-from-summit-2023/ That session was called DevOps is about Growing People rather than...
2024-03-27 (first published: 2024-03-20)
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Goals for 2024
Way back in 2019 I set some goals…. well I wrote some goals and posted them here 2019 seems a lifetime ago…..that was the year I travelled 200,000 air...
2024-03-20
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KQL Series – KQL the next query language you need to learn – a video from Data Exposed
I love KQL so much I even made a video and if you compare it to my last blog post – yeah my hair has changed a bit…And my...
2023-04-07 (first published: 2023-03-20)
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KQL Series – some DevOps things: Provisioning using Powershell
If you have read any of my last few posts on provisioning Azure Data Explorer then you will probably be wondering….. Will he write about Powershell? Ok, I will....
2023-04-03 (first published: 2023-03-20)
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KQL Series – ingesting data with Azure Data Factory
Background: Azure Data Explorer is a powerful analytics service that allows us to quickly ingest, store, and analyze large volumes of data from various sources. Azure Data Factory is...
2023-03-27 (first published: 2023-03-19)
358 reads
KQL Series – enough writing – some talking
I recently did a talk to the Data Platform Down Under User group and it covers a whole heap of stuff that I’ve written about in this series. Check...
2023-03-20
20 reads
KQL Series – Kusto Engine V3 – let’s make stuff go faster
In late March 2021 Azure Data Explorer Engine v3 was release and it is the latest version of the engine that powers Azure Data Explorer. It is designed to...
2023-03-20
40 reads
KQL Series – some DevOps things: Provisioning using Azure CLI
I can’t really write about provisioning anything in Azure without mentioning Azure CLI.My last two posts were about using terraform and bicep Here we will be using the Azure...
2023-03-20
31 reads
Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
Disclosure: this post may contain links to books as an affiliate link. If you...
Google – NotebookLM on ThakurVinay blog
By Vinay Thakur
Google has contributed a lot of stuff/enhancement on its portfolio, google is no longer...
Forums
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL,...
provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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