A New Word: Altschemerz

altschmerz – n. a sense of weariness with the same old problems that you’ve always had, the same boring issues and anxieties you’ve been gnawing on for decades, which...

Best Practice Tip #1: Beware of Best Practices

Best Practice Tip #1: Beware of Best Practices

It may sound contractionary that the first item of a best practices list is to be wary of...

Spark Connect Dotnet First Major Milestone

All Spark Connect Posts
When I wrote the spark-connect-dotnet lib I didn’t envisage that I would implement every function, instead it would be a combination of implementing the most common...

Using Spark Connect from .NET

Introductory Ramble Spark Connect In July 2022, at the Data and AI summit, Apache Spark announced “Spark Connect,” which was a way of connecting to Apache Spark using the...

New Pluralsight Course - Certified Kubernetes Administrator - Kubernetes Foundations

We’re kicking off a major refresh of my Certified Kubernetes Administrator series at Pluralsight!
The first course “Certified Kubernetes Administrator: Kubernetes Foundations” in the updated series is now available on...

A Primer on Attaching Databases with PowerShell Method AttachDatabase

A Primer on Attaching Databases with PowerShell Method AttachDatabase

Attaching a SQL Server database using PowerShell can be straightforward. Here's an effective and easy approach using the...

Updating Teslamate to the Latest Version

I noticed Teslamate wasn’t updated. In fact, I hadn’t had any data captured in nearly a month and I’ve been too busy to notice. I was concerned something had...

Troubleshooting SQL Server Error 8623: The query processor ran out of internal resources and could not produce a query plan

SQL Server Error 8623

At least once day, an application for one of the databases I manage gets this error:The query processor ran out of internal...

Friday Flyway Tips–The Version Control Blade

The Flyway Desktop Version Control tab is gone and a new blade has appeared in its place. This post looks at the changes and what that means for a...

A New Word: Candling

candling – v. intr. the habit of taking stock of your life on the occasion of your birthday, letting it serve as a kind of internal referendum on all...