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

Blog alert! My SQL Server highlights from the Ignite! #MicrosoftIgnite #Ignite2025 #sqlserver #sqlserver2025 #MicrosoftFabric #DBA #ssms #copilot #github

Blog Alert! This time on hands-on experiences with OneLake Security in Fabric #MicrosoftFabric #OneLake #Security #Lakehouse

One thing I love about the Visual Studio installer are the hints that pop up when there are updates, or new releases. Small things that matter :) #visualstudio #ssms

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 22 has gone into GA! This is a bit earlier then expected, but also a sign of the amazing work the team lead by @erinstellato.bsky.social Makena Barickman are doing. Go check it out! techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserv...

Really happy to see that SQL is getting it's own conference. Joined with FabCon, now there's SQLCon! Read more here: sqlcon.us #FabCon #SqlCon #MicrosoftFabric #SqlServer #MVPBuzz

Call for Speakers for Stockholm SQL 2025-2026 is open on Sessionize and I've just submitted a session! sessionize.com/stockholm-sq...

Want to present at our new Stockholm SQL usergroup? We're doing in-person sessions about once per month. If you can't make any of those specific dates, reach out to @transmokopter.bsky.social or me, and we'll work something out for you!

New blog post: SSMS 22 Preview 3 comes with some promissing features and improvements. And the startup speed has finally been noticeably improved #sqlserver #sqldba #microsoftsqlserver #mssqlserver #mssql #mssqldba #sql vladdba.com/2025/10/16/s...

In this article I examine the outage, what went wrong, what your other options are for high availability for Front Door, and finally what you can learn from this outage. #Azure #Cloud #AzureNetworking #Outage #FrontDoorOutage redmondmag.com/articles/202...

I’m way too happy about my PowerShell experience today. Writing code to create the basic workspaces, lakehouses, pipelines and metadata database using the Fabric API endpoints. #Powershell #MicrosoftFabric

A very cool Meetup tonight with sessions on extracting data from Strava into an ETL and reporting solution followed by a brand new!! Speaker on migrating from Qlik to Fabric. Thank you GetThere for hosting! #Meetup #databricks #PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric #Qlik