Excellent introduction. Made it easy for me to understand.

I love the unification of Fabric. Unfortunately, at my work, I've lost the backend to the "engineers" who insist on using Databricks. I'm hoping to keep Fabric as the front...

Thanks for covering, Grant and Kellyn. And thanks, Steve Jones. Been reading SQLServer Central first thing in morning for over a decade. I'm more of a Power Pivot guy, but...

I drink Microsoft-flavored Kool-Aid, so I support Microsoft Fabric on principle. I like idea of the Fabric SQL DB. I think a "data warehouse" is a database, and don't see...

I remember introducing both Windows and QuickTime to the USAF's SAC in Omaha. We did presentations and were first there to use PowerPoint on the big screens (8) in the...

The last real conference I attended was RailsConf 2008 in Portland. A nice visit to a place with light rail from the airport, a vibrant (pre-COVID) downtown, my favorite author...

Everyone in a hurry to get something done, not necessarily to do it right the first time. And speaking of not learning, why was it I never heard of C.J.Date...

Amen, brother. Although sometimes I'm the one who wrote the garbage code many years ago. I just try not to lose my temper at work. Would rather the company get...

I''m kind of embarrassed that I only discovered C. J. Date aka Chris Date and his writings (and presentations on O'Reilly) this summer, and that only due to Ralph Kimball...

Although looks like NoSQL mostly turned into SparkSQL. The relational database still seems to be working 50  years on.

I used to think I knew what 1NF and 3NF was in a relational database. Then I watched a class by C. J. Date and relearned otherwise.

True that.

Steve, thanks for all the blogs. SQLServerCentral is the first email I read in the mornings. I plan to do my first presentation this month, and to start a blog....

XP and other processes developed in late 1990s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming . Kent Beck's books was published in 1999.

I learned Git on the command line, and still prefer it. I hate having to learn how to use all of the different GUIs: GitHub, GitLab, DevOps. As you said,...