I’ve uploaded the slides for my Techorama session Microsoft Fabric for Dummies and my DataGrillen session Building the €100 data warehouse with the Azure Data Platform to Github. If...
2026-05-22
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If you've ever loaded a 2 GB CSV into pandas just to run a few aggregations — and watched your machine struggle — there's a better tool for the...
2026-06-10 (first published: 2026-05-21)
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What problem is Fabric Ontology trying to solve? For years, most data conversations have started with tables. We ask where the data lives, what columns are available, how the...
2026-06-10 (first published: 2026-05-20)
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Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A colleague was having some trouble with the code, but what struck me was that I...
2026-06-08 (first published: 2026-05-20)
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There are some telltale signs that your growing business has outgrown Excel for your reporting needs. Excel is probably the most adopted piece of software out there, and I...
2026-06-08 (first published: 2026-05-20)
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Thank you to everyone who participated in T-SQL Tuesday #198! When I wrote the invitation post, I intentionally kept the prompt broad because change detection looks different depending on...
2026-06-05 (first published: 2026-05-19)
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Efficient query performance in Amazon Redshift often comes down to how well you manage workload concurrency. Redshift's Workload Management (WLM) queues enable you to control how queries share resources,...
2026-06-05 (first published: 2026-05-18)
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Welcome back to PowerShell Strikes Back. We’re three weeks in, and the training is paying off. In Week 1, we learned that quotes are not interchangeable. In Week 2,...
2026-06-03 (first published: 2026-05-18)
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Last week I was honored with a trip to Rome for the Redgate President’s Club. I was awarded this, along with our top people in Sales, for the work...
2026-05-18
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As part of my wider work exploring Claude Code and AI-assisted database engineering, I have been looking at how AI can support SQL Server operations. A failed job, missed...
2026-06-03 (first published: 2026-05-17)
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Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
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