If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac with Apple Silicon is genuinely one of the best machines you can have as a...
2026-07-10 (first published: 2026-06-25)
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It’s Prime Day. A few of my recommendations, since I want to do some shopping myself (yes, these are commissioned referrals). These are things I’ve ordered and used this...
2026-06-24 (first published: 2026-06-23)
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With Fabric Mirroring, Microsoft is promoting a nice and appealing story for operational reporting build entirely in Fabric where you can have almost live data in reports. The pitch...
2026-07-08 (first published: 2026-06-23)
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If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems useful, but I have no idea where to start,” this post is for you.
The post...
2026-07-06 (first published: 2026-06-22)
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Not every production incident is a database in RECOVERY_PENDING or a corrupted event (like the other post). Sometimes the server is just a mess. Jobs failing. Error log full...
2026-06-23 (first published: 2026-06-22)
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It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That is the whole charm of Redshift Serverless: you stop thinking about nodes and resizes. It...
2026-07-03 (first published: 2026-06-19)
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Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate, I’ve participated in many events, some we hosted, some we sponsored. At most of these...
2026-07-03 (first published: 2026-06-19)
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