Truly a magnificent timeline we live in. "I can't promise I'll stop [lying]." I hope you're monitoring every little thing these LLMs do. Even promising to do better is part of their programmed deceit.

Watching now: Gregor Prohaska practising his session for New Stars of Data at the Data Platform Groningen Meetup. New Stars of Data will come to you on May 8th in your time zone. Check out the agenda to learn from new speakers! newstarsofdata.com

Blog alert! This time a deep dive into SQL Server 2025 mirroring into Microsoft Fabric. #SQLServer2025 #MicrosoftFabric #Mirroring #DataReplication

“AI is down”

Blog alert! This time on taking over the ownership of an orphaned deployment pipeline using PowerShell. #MicrosoftFabric #DeploymentPipeline #API #PowerShell #PowerBI

If you work with SQL Server, you should understand Log Shipping! I created a walkthrough covering RPO/RTO, the architecture, the jobs, and a full configuration demo. It’s simple, reliable, & underrated. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqO1... #SQLServer #LogShipping #DBA #DR // @dbvisit.com

AI and agents can make your life easier. I just checked a technical design on the Microsoft Learn best practices. And got great feedback on what was missing or outdated. The process took maybe 10 minutes; it would have cost me at least a day. #MicrosoftLearn #MCP #NotAllAiIsBad #VSCode

AI tools are demanding fighter pilot-level cognitive multitasking from every knowledge worker. We're neither selected for it nor trained for it - and a new Berkeley study suggests we're paying the price without anyone noticing. arcticdba.se/posts/more-s... #AI #Cognition

So, what role does one need to enter?

Blog alert! This time on my experiences at MVP Summit and some tips for newcomers next year. #Microsoft #MVPSummit #Community

Just found out the hotel elevator runs on Access… how did we survive!! #msAccess

I have opinions ;)

I’d like to echo Alexanders words; it’s about the “Hallway track”. So much value to be found there.

Blog alert! This time, use Chocolatey when getting a new laptop or workstation to quickly install your favourite tools. #dsc #powershell #chocolatey #automation

Blog alert! This time, a way to handle arrays that only have one element in KQL. A follow-up to the previous blog on XML and JSON. #MicrosoftFabric #ADX #Kusto #KQL #JSON #XML #DataEngineer

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