Let’s get this show on the road! #sqlkonferenz

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

if you use a Mac and use SQL Server, check this out. It's very alpha right now, but it works a little. github.com/jdanton/quer...

It’s been four years today. People in Ukraine are still fighting and dying to defend the rest of us from russian aggression. Every day, Russia uses cruise missiles and UAVs to target civilian infrastructure like hospitals and powerplants. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

“we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there.”

Life is so unfair

I honestly thought asbestos was a solved problem and nothing to worry about in this day and age. I thought nobody on earth could defend or promote its use with a straight face. But as always, there's money to be made.

Good morning, hive mind. I need your help finding a suitable meme. For a presentation, I want to illustrate how a hugely complex and expensive undertaking can generate unexpected tangible results. Kind of like the space program gave us nonstick pans and memory foam. All ideas appreciated.

The Dell U4025QW ultrawide monitor is an amazing piece of tech, but don't ever try to update the firmware from a Mac. After a dozen-or-so attempts with my Windows machine, factory resets of my monitor, unplugging and replugging a hundred cables, and some magical thinking, it finally worked.

”Team players” are people who cannot be trusted with individual responsibility.

My new vlog is live. Time to look at Optimized Locking in SQL Server 2025. What is Transaction ID Locking? What problem does it solve, how does it work, and what are the limitations? Find out here! sqlserverfast.com/blog/hugo/20...

Help get inline descriptions/comments on database objects become a thing. Vote here: feedback.azure.com/d365communit...

I wonder how the customer's cost savings on this overprovisioned Azure Virtual Desktop compare to the cost of my hourly rate while I wait for it to complete my login and a virus scan so I can start working.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Oh hey, this looks very cool:

It's alright to be nervous, people are not looking for your mistakes, they are looking for your message. Get more tips here: sqlmct.com/ten-tips-for...

Important PSA: Microchip your pet. Don’t spy on your neighbours.

When it's -10°C, dark and windy outside, there's something fundamentally satisfying and hopeful in booking a June week in Croatia. I don't mean to be rude to you, my dear winter, but you're about to outstay your welcome again.

I have absolutely zero interest in winter sports, but I would totally tune in to see the booing of the clowns.

Me: "Just give me the essentials, don't wrap it in unnecessary preambles." Copilot:

I'm dying here

Lol, chess.com. I’m flattered, but my game might (generously) be 500 Elo. At 2150, I’d be going around winning local chess tournaments. :)

As of this morning, I am on the job market, #OpenToWork, or however that is designated here. 🙂 I’m immediately looking for a new position, and my DMs are open. Thanks network!

I built an online practice app for M (Power Query) 🚀 ✅ 150 levels across topics ✅ Multiple solutions per level ✅ No account, progress saved locally ✅ Most of the M functions are implemented Try it: mgame.datameerkat.com #PowerQuery #MLanguage #PowerBI

I can't think of a single nice person who has reason to "fear cancellation" on social media.

Visiting the quaint little countryside village of Enköping to see @transmokopter.bsky.social for his office housewarming party.

3 days to go until the CfP for Data Ceili closes! Fancy speaking at the amazing Trinity College in Dublin? sessionize.com/data-ceili-2... #sqlserver #fabric #sql2025 #powerbi

If you're an ISV, here's a fun pattern if you want to mess with BI consultants: Use one datetime column for the date part and another for the time part. The "date" of the time column is usually 2000-01-01, but just for yucks, you can put the actual date in there (or even the day before).

Brilliant and interesting presentation about the giant security vulnerability that is children’s smartwatches.

In other news, I have a new-found desire for a Jaguar XK150 Roadster. All I need first is an English castle to park it in front of, and *checks notes* €115k.

Blink and you'll miss it: Today, callfordataspeakers.com celebrates 500 email campaigns in the almost exactly five years since its inception. Big thanks to all the organizers and speakers who make the site useful by, well, using it. ❤️

A client computer uses Windows Hello facial recognition. For whatever reason (crappy laptop, probably) it struggles to correctly identify me, so logging on can take a couple of tries. But if I make a tired/impatient expression, the facial recognition works much better. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you use Database Mail in SQL Server, you should not install SQL Server 2022 CU23 (which breaks Database Mail). learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubl... #SQLServer #SQLServer2022

"Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

SQL Server 2025 CU1 adds four new DMVs for monitoring Linux performance: sys.dm_os_linux_cpu_stats, sys.dm_os_linux_disk_stats, sys.dm_os_linux_net_stats, sys.dm_os_linux_vm_stats. That last one isn't documented (yet?) but the rest are: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/re...

Interviewer: ”where do you see yourself in five years?”

36 hours left. Tick, tock, my fellow procrastinators.

”He particularly took issue with [people] asking for regulation and mandatory safeguards. “You have to ask yourself, you know, what is the purpose of that narrative and what are their intentions, […] Why are they talking to governments about these things to create regulations to suffocate startups?”

Boycott Twitter. Right now. Stop hiding behind the excuse "That's where my customers/followers are". Tell them you're leaving Twitter. Tell them why. And if they won't follow you, you don't need them. Stand up for something.

I’ve just updated the production site with a couple of long overdue bug fixes and a few new features. Oh, and I finally migrated the service away from Mailchimp.

If you want more SQL Server content and less AI slop, please upvote some of my SQL Bits sessions. And if you need a little bribery to persuade you, I'll bring chocolates to my session if I get selected to speak. The good stuff, not the kind you get in the UK. 🇨🇭 sqlbits.com/sessions/ Thanks ❤️

You have about one week left to submit your abstracts to @datasatsto.se. Beautiful early-summer Stockholm awaits! sessionize.com/data-saturda...

If you can’t get users to adopt AI, just rename Office, and *voilà* - you instantly have hundreds of millions of AI subscribers. So much shareholder value. Chess, not checkers. Mind blown.

Mood

A wonderful event, 10/10 would recommend:

Another small step towards reducing my dependency on US cloud services: Today I cancelled my company's Dropbox plan and migrated all my files out. Grüetzi, Proton Drive 🇨🇭

After a long and miserable rainy December, snow has finally arrived in Stockholm.

The intro is so sarcastic that even Youtube’s AI summary can’t keep up.

I can't believe the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize would do this.