A New Word: Wellium
wellium – n. an excuse you come up with to rationalize a disappointing outcome – telling yourself that you weren’t in the mood for that sold-out show anyway, that...
2024-02-09
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Blog Posts
Friday Flyway Tips–Dark Mode
I saw a post that Flyway Desktop has a dark mode and I had to try it out. I’ve been working with Flyway Desktop for work more and more...
2024-02-09
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Moving SQL Prompt History to Another Machine
A customer was asking about SQL Prompt recently and how their history is stored and if it can be moved to another machine. This post shows how this works,...
2024-02-09 (first published: 2024-01-22)
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Search for queries with Query Store GUI
Hey folks, long time no write!
Today I want to bring a tip that I use every week but I found that most SSMS users are unaware it exists.
I can...
2024-02-09 (first published: 2024-01-29)
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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,”...
2024-02-08
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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...
2024-02-07 (first published: 2024-01-24)
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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...
2024-02-07 (first published: 2024-01-23)
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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...
2024-02-05
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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....
2024-02-05 (first published: 2024-01-21)
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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...
2024-02-05
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Blogs
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Plan
By Brian Kelley
My most recent bout with imposter syndrome was with ISACA’s Digital Trust Ecosystem Framework...
Advice I Like: Celebrate Success
By Steve Jones
“On the way to a grand goal, celebrate the smallest victories as if each...
Programmatically Retrieving MLV Lineage and Refresh Times
Materialized lake views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric are an effective way to implement medallion...
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