Take over Ownership in Microsoft Fabric
When you create an item in Microsoft Fabric (a notebook, a lakehouse, a warehouse, a pipeline …), you are also the owner of the item. There has been an...
2025-02-05 (first published: 2025-01-29)
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How-To Convert Excel Date & Time to SQL
Hey data friends! This one comes from my personal vault (aka backlog of drafts I’ve been needing to write up) and is a really simple code that I always...
2025-02-14 (first published: 2025-01-28)
1,343 reads
SQL in 2025: Still the King of Data
Data's the new oil, and SQL is your refinery. It's still the go-to language for shaping, analyzing, and making sense of the data that fuels our businesses. In 2025,...
2025-01-28
227 reads
Drop roles in Postgres
You can’t just exec DROP ROLE your_role_name; if it’s granted perms or other roles are granted to it. I had to go fishing to find all the grants to...
2025-02-12 (first published: 2025-01-27)
238 reads
Get a PAT in Azure DevOps
I have a presentation recently on Continuous Integration Using Local Agents in Azure DevOps and one of the things I do in there is get a PAT for Azure...
2025-02-05 (first published: 2025-01-27)
401 reads
The Local OLLAMA Gui
I ran a small ollama model in a container and have been doing some experiments. One of the things I wanted to do was get a GUI so I...
2025-01-27
172 reads
A New Word: Amoransia
amoransia – n. the melodramatic thrill of unrequited love; the longing to pine for someone you can never have, wallowing in devotion to some impossible person who could give...
2025-01-24
59 reads
The Data API Builder Start and Add Extensions in VS Code
One of the things that I like about the Data API Builder (DAB) is that there is a lot of CLI work that can be done. However, lots of...
2025-01-22
135 reads
Using OneLake for Excel Files in Microsoft Fabric
Hey data friends! This blog is to discuss an edge case I’ve run into in Microsoft Fabric. I won’t go into all the context, but the goal was to...
2025-02-03 (first published: 2025-01-21)
2,459 reads
Another AI Faux Pax
I was experimenting with a local model (article) and as a part of this, I pulled down a web interface for my model in a container. I ran it...
2025-01-31 (first published: 2025-01-20)
417 reads
Blogs
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
Adding an HTTP MCP Server to VSCode
By Steve Jones
I wrote earlier this week about the SQL MCP Server using the Data API...
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Question of the Day
Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers