A New Word: La Guadière
la guadière – n. a glint of goodness you notice in something that you wouldn’t expect, which is often only detectable by sloshing them back and forth in your...
2026-06-05
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Microsoft Purview data governance best practices
Microsoft Purview can be the best data governance tool in the world, but it will still be useless if people do not know it exists, do not trust the...
2026-06-04
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AI Insights for Database Monitoring: A DBA’s Perspective
Second in a series on Ai and databases. One Story, three signals – I have a backup of a critical database that has failed three times, the recovery point...
2026-06-05 (first published: 2026-06-04)
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Crash-Consistent MongoDB Snapshot and Restore with Everpure Fusion
I’ve been working on a project that combines two things I spend a lot of time with: MongoDB sharded clusters and Everpure FlashArrays. The goal is a production-grade backup...
2026-06-04
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AI and Data Engineering on the Edge: The Good, the Bad, and the Overhyped
Running AI and data pipelines on the edge instead of the cloud has gone from a niche embedded concern to a default option on a lot of architecture diagrams....
2026-06-03
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UNION vs UNIONALL: #SQLNewBlogger
While writing another post I realized my UNION query didn’t work as one might initiall expect, so I decided a short post was worth writing. This is based on...
2026-06-03
51 reads
Deciphering Data Architectures Is Now Available in Multiple Languages
Since the release of my book Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh, I’ve been fortunate to hear from readers...
2026-06-02
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T-SQL Tuesday #199 Invitation: Back to on-prem?
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again! And we’re almost to number 200! T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly community blogging event started by Adam Machanic in 2009. Each month a...
2026-06-02
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Data Skew in Data Engineering: What It Is and How to Fix It
You kick off a distributed job expecting it to finish in minutes — but one task keeps running while all others have long since completed. The culprit is almost...
2026-06-17 (first published: 2026-06-01)
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Error Deploying GraphQL in Fabric: dm_exec_describe_first_result_set
A while ago we suddenly had an error while trying to deploy one Fabric workspace to another using fabric-cicd. The issue was with a GraphQL object and the following...
2026-06-17 (first published: 2026-06-01)
130 reads
Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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