So pleased - our new "Implementing Zero-ETL with MIcrosoft Fabric Mirroring" course was released today! Time to get your head around mirroring and know where it makes sense? Just $195 USD and with detailed modules, quizzes, and labs, plus lab walkthrough videos. sqldownunder.com/courses/fmi_...

Fabric RTI 101: Joining using KQL blog.greglow.com/2026/05/17/f...

SQL Server: SQL Server and Programming Frameworks blog.greglow.com/2026/05/16/s...

Fabric RTI 101: What are KQL Querysets? blog.greglow.com/2026/05/15/f...

Opinion: Should IT professionals learn to type? – Investing in yourself blog.greglow.com/2026/05/14/g...

Fabric RTI 101: Querying using KQL blog.greglow.com/2026/05/13/f...

Anyone have opinions on KSnip vs Snagit?

It's that time of the year again when @MSTechSummit is running. I look forward to this event every year, and once again I'll be speaking. Follow the link for more details and a discount code. blog.greglow.com/2026/05/12/g...

New Tech Career for Life (Video) Podcast ! Show 5 features Ron Dunn who I've known a long time. Until his recent retirement he was a performance and cost specialist at Snowflake but he's had a long career, particularly in data, and with a long stint at Microsoft. blog.greglow.com/2026/05/12/t...

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

Fabric RTI 101: Visual Exploration blog.greglow.com/2026/05/11/f...

SQL Server: ALL_LATEST_FILES option for RESTORE blog.greglow.com/2026/05/10/s...

Nicely done. Could have been in all caps though. :-)

Fabric RTI 101: KQL Databases blog.greglow.com/2026/05/09/f...

SQL Server: Stored Procedure Contracts and Temp Tables blog.greglow.com/2026/05/08/s...

Fabric RTI 101: Eventstream Destinations blog.greglow.com/2026/05/07/f...

SQL Server: The need for user-defined index types blog.greglow.com/2026/05/06/s...

New SQL Down Under podcast is out the door ! Show 95 features dual MVP Jess Pomfret discussing the use of Data API Builder with SQL Server. blog.greglow.com/2026/05/05/s...

Fabric RTI 101: Designing Eventstream Pipelines blog.greglow.com/2026/05/05/f...

SQL Server: What types of objects are useful in SQL CLR? blog.greglow.com/2026/05/04/s...

Fabric RTI 101: Routing Events blog.greglow.com/2026/05/03/f...

Opinion: How enforceable are EULAs today? blog.greglow.com/2026/05/02/o...

Fabric RTI 101: Fabric Storage Options - KQL Databases blog.greglow.com/2026/05/01/f...

SQL Server: Stored Procedures - Time for a real contract? blog.greglow.com/2026/04/30/s...

Fabric RTI 101: Apache and Confluent Kafka Support blog.greglow.com/2026/04/29/f...

General: Is The Paid-Article Website Dead? blog.greglow.com/2026/04/28/g...

Fabric RTI 101: Using Custom SQL Code blog.greglow.com/2026/04/27/f...

Want to be an absolute SSMS expert? v3 of this free ebook is fully updated to SSMS v21. sqldownunder.myflodesk.com/ssmsbook

General: Is AI Learning from our old poor quality code? blog.greglow.com/2026/04/26/g...

Fabric RTI 101: Expansion in EventStreams blog.greglow.com/2026/04/25/f...

From Maths and Science Humour. Nice !

SQL Server: Odd that you still can't create a filtered index on a deterministic persisted calculated column blog.greglow.com/2026/04/24/s...

Fabric RTI 101: Applying Union in Eventstreams blog.greglow.com/2026/04/23/f...

Speaking again with my friends from Poland at the Data Science Summit. You can attend online and get a discount.

SQL Server: SQLCMD mode and batch separators blog.greglow.com/2026/04/22/s...

Fabric RTI 101: Snapshot Windows blog.greglow.com/2026/04/21/f...

General: Crocodiles know much more than we think blog.greglow.com/2026/04/20/g...

Fabric RTI 101: Hopping Windows blog.greglow.com/2026/04/19/f...

SSRS and Fabric Paginated Reports: Avoid Hiding T-SQL in Reports blog.greglow.com/2026/04/18/s...

Fabric RTI 101: Session Windows blog.greglow.com/2026/04/17/f...

Opinion: Passwords as a concept are completely broken blog.greglow.com/2026/04/16/o...

Fabric RTI 101: Sliding Windows blog.greglow.com/2026/04/15/f...

SQL Interview 113: Missing tempdb files blog.greglow.com/2026/04/14/s...

Fabric RTI 101: Tumbling blog.greglow.com/2026/04/13/f...

SQL Server: Calling a Scalar UDF with EXEC blog.greglow.com/2026/04/12/s...

Fabric RTI 101: Applying Temporal Windows blog.greglow.com/2026/04/11/f...

SQL Server: EXEC AS User on EXEC Statements blog.greglow.com/2026/04/10/s...

Fabric RTI 101: Grouping blog.greglow.com/2026/04/09/f...

SDU Tools: List User Heap Tables in SQL Server blog.greglow.com/2026/04/08/s...