My data architecture book is published!

I’m thrilled to share that after 15 months of dedicated effort, my book, “Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh,”...

How to Call REST API using VS Code

Sometimes you need a fast way to test your API call and responses, and for that VS code is the perfect tool to do that. For today’s demo, we...

Your gradient fill bar charts in Power BI have poor color contrast, but you can fix them

Since conditional formatting was released for Power BI, I have seen countless examples of bar charts that have a gradient color fill. If you aren’t careful about the gradient...

David Kahn, legendary author, has passed away

I first saw this at Schneier on Security. David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers, has passed away at 93. The Codebreakers was considered the best book on the history...

Digging up undiscovered savings

You might be able to shave off thousands – or more – in your monthly cloud bills for your critical SQL Servers, all while maintaining or even improving performance....

Moving towards the DataFrame API using the Spark Connect gRPC API in .NET

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Goal of this post So there are two goals of this post, the first is to take a look at Apache Arrow and how we can...

SQL Server's Buffer Cache: How to Calculate Dirty Page Sizes

SQL Server's Buffer Cache: How to Calculate Dirty Page Sizes

As we know, the SQL Server buffer cache is an area or region inside the server's memory where SQL Server...

The DevOps Airways Roadshow

I love this logo. Our marketing people were very creative. After the van tour last year, we decided to go with a plane this year. I wrote about the...

Azure Function App doesn’t retrieve most recent secret value from Azure Key Vault

Quite a long title for quite an annoying issue. Let me explain the set-up first: I have pipelines running in Azure Data Factory and I want to send e-mails...

A New Word: Tarrion

tarrion – n. an odd interval of blankness you feel after something big happens to you bt before you feel the resulting emotional reaction – stunned by a sudden...