Blog alert! A short one this time, on a nice find processen XML data in Realtime Intelligence. #MicrosoftFabric #RealtimeIntelligence #XML #Kusto #KQL #EventHouse

Blog Alert! This time of getting the Data Api Builder MCP preview to connect to a Fabric Lakehouse SQL Endpoint using Entra ID. #MCP #DAB #MicrosoftFabric #Lakehouse #SqlEndpoint #EntraId

Blog Alert! This time on the disk sector size error I ran into when installing SQL Server 2025, and the solution I was sent. #SQLServer #SqlServer2025 #Installer #SectorSize #RegEdit #GlennBerry #MicrosoftLearn

Blog Alert! Part 3 of 3 on the Data API Builder MCP (preview) functionality. This time on running it locally with VS Code, GitHub Copilot and even PowerShell! #sqlserver #mcp #dab #ai #visualstudiocode #copilot #GitHub #PowerShell

Blog Alert! Part 2of 3 on the Data API Builder MCP (preview) functionality. This time on getting it to run on Azure Container Apps connecting to Azure SQL. #sqlserver #azuresql #mcp #dab #ai #microsoftfoundry #visualstudiocode #copilot

This was not a good morning 😭

When your hotel is very close to an airport (not Schiphol).

Blog Alert! Part 1 of 3 on the Data API Builder MCP (preview) functionality. This time on design and installation. #sqlserver #azuresql #mcp #dab #ai #microsoftfoundry #visualstudiocode #copilot

📢 The European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference Call for Speakers is now open. Submit a tutorial ➡️ https://sessionize.com/fabcon26workshops/ Submit a session ➡️ https://sessionize.com/fabcon26/ #MicrosoftFabric #MicrosoftSQL

Blog alert! I've revisited my loadtests in Fabric and wrote them down. Enjoy! #MicrosoftFabric #LoadTesting #Lakehouse #Warehouse #Eventhouse #FabricSQL

If you're trying out the SQL MCP quickstart, make sure you change the Dockerfile to use data-api-builder:1.7.81-rc instead of the shown data-api-builder:1.7.83-rc. The latter seems broken: 81 works. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/... #SqlServer #MCP #AzureSql

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!

Blog alert! This time on my speaking experiences at #DataCommunityDayAustria and a little advertising for #NewStarsOfData!

Call for Speakers for Data Saturday Oslo 2026 is open on Sessionize and I've just submitted five sessions! sessionize.com/data-saturda...

Call for speakers at Data Céilí is open and I've just submitted 4 sessions :). More info: sessionize.com/data-ceili-2...

Call for Speakers for Data Saturday Rheinland 2026 is open on Sessionize and I've just submitted three sessions! sessionize.com/data-saturda...

Next up, the excellent @tracisewell.com talking about #burnout and #mentalhealth at the #DataCommunityDayAustria

Damir Matesic sharing cool stuff around JSON and #sqlserver at the #DataCommunityAustriaDay

SQL Server database administrators: if you're curious about what it's like to deal with database corruption, a well-known corruption expert in our field just put out a very affordable training course on it: stedmans-sql-school.teachable.com/p/corruption

Feels like -15 degrees C

When you've spent around 500 euro's and 3 days on testing different (Azure) SQL databases and Powershell decided to output everything in Chinese/Japanese characters...

Doing some load testing stuff again. Let's see if, when, and how I can break it this time. Without any doubt, with me doing silly things, of course!

Unpopular opinion: any programming language where indentation has a meaning is fundamentally flawed.

Went out into the garden, took some pictures. Felt good to create something and get the creative streams flowing again.

No boasting on job accomplishments, no celebrating how amazing the year was. It may have been, but the ending nearly broke me. After more than a week off, the body battery won't go over 85. The year is over, we get a new calendar and let's move on.

Queen + Zwift = A kind of magic #Queen #Zwift #top2000

Another tradition, timekeeping at the Olympic Qualifying Event in Thialf, Heerenveen. A lot of tech and innovation. Fun to do and best seats in the house.

✨ Double the Brains. Half the Cost✨ #FabConEurope 2 for 1 Sale is back on Jan 21st. Register your interest today ⬇️ https://www.sharepointeurope.com/european-microsoft-fabric-community-conference-tickets/

Christmas holiday = #Top2000 + #Zwift

Ended the working year with working on a very cool demo including C# code, realtime intelligence, Maps and MCP. A lot of new stuff that made happy to try and work with.

16 hours to go to my holiday. The last eight are looking great, building a brand-new demo with some (for me) new moving parts in Fabric and in Azure. And writing code :).

You want to learn about #SQLServer #partitioning, but don't have the attention span for an entire conference talk. Join me tomorrow, December 18, 19:00 CET (1 p.m. ET) for a retro-themed speedrun. Bring coffee, there won't be time to wait for stragglers. www.meetup.com/groningen-mi...

Just LOOK at this awesome marketing email I got from our FabCon/SQLCon team today. Tech Conferences is KILLIN IT. The agenda went live today. Congrats to ALL the speakers that were selected. Check it out aka.ms/fabcon-agenda Register today! #FabCon #SQLCon #SQLServer #MicrosoftFabric #PowerBI

Call for Speakers for Data Saturday Stockholm 2026 is open on Sessionize, and I've just submitted three sessions! sessionize.com/data-saturda...

The feeling when you write a few things down to a to-do list and feel like a weight is lifted from your shoulders. I may need the coming three weeks off more than I care to admit.

Is it just me or is it weird that all apps are giving me overviews of this year when the year hasn’t ended. Almost like december doesn’t count anymore?

Excellent conference in a lovely city with great people. What more could you wish for!

Open social media

"...the sheer number of machines still running Windows 10 could turn into a cybersecurity time bomb..." futurism.com/artificial-i... So no more security updates...or AI and Recall. Tough call.

Please don't let the fear of not doing something well stop you from trying it for the first time. Write a messy story. Paint a crappy flower. Whittle the worst wooden bear of all time. The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.

Blog alert! This time on orchestrating your ETL/ELT loads. Also contains hints of parameterisation. #MicrosoftFabric #DP700 #ETL #ELT

Ignite is really heavily focussing on Agents and AI. I'm not necessarily against it (I've done a bit of work with SSMS Copilot for instance), but to put so much focus on it does distract a bit from the regular tools a very large portion of people work with on a daily basis. #msignite

Did you know you can use your #GitHub Developer #Copilot license in #SSMS 22?!? Dive into it with a demo on Lock & Blocking on SQL Server & #Fabric SQL Database #FabSQL Link: youtu.be/98EXnKfBabE @joshluedeman.com @sqlballs.com @dbabulldog.bsky.social @bradleyschacht.com @neerajny.bsky.social

@microsoft.com just announced that they are the number 1 AI provider in the world. They also announced a full partnership with @anthropic.com to enable access to #Claude on MS Foundry

I know Microsoft likes to rename things, but did Contoso get booted in favour of Zava? #msignite

Excited for the GA release of #SQLServer2025. I feel like there's going to be a lot of hidden gems beyond the ones we already knew about. Make sure to bookmark all the blogs & are ready for the firehose of info, especially if you haven't been keeping up. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/SQLServ...

SQL Server 2025 is now GA. You can read about it in my @redmondit.bsky.social column here: redmondmag.com/articles/202... Licensing is the same as it was before, just lots of neat stuff. (Hint do a control+F on "standard") #Sqlserver2025 #msignite #azuresql

SQL Server 2025 GAs Today voiceofthedba.com/2025/11/18/s...

🎉 SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric is now Generally Available! 🎉 The preview icon has disappeared in my Fabric tenant. It’s official! Build modern OLTP apps with this SaaS database. 👉 Book of News: aka.ms/book-of-news #MicrosoftFabric #SQL #SQLDatabaseInFabric #AI #MSIgnite