Dennes Torres in Blogs Using Parameters with DAX in Report Builder This is something we expect to be simple, but it has a lot of secrets. Using parameters in DAX queries... 29 May 2025 4 min read
Louis Davidson First LLM Technical Editor Test – Office and Web-based Copilot with a VERY wrong article Next up, I am going to give Microsoft Copilot its chance to check for technical inaccuracies in my obviously very... 19 May 2025 19 min read
Ben Johnston in Blogs Managed Instance Gotchas – Configuration Items In my last post I described issues that might stop your migration to a SQL Server Managed Instance (SQL MI).... 13 May 2025 10 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Query Lineage in Fabric Lakehouses I already wrote about query performance analysis in lakehouses, but one secret was left behind: The capability to track the... 02 May 2025 7 min read
Louis Davidson in Conferences PGDay Chicago 2025 Roundup Just got back home last night about 2 AM, and I am sitting in a park thinking about the last... 28 April 2025 4 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Azure Function & API Rate Limits: How NAT Gateway Helps You Stay Under the Radar Rate limit is common when consuming API’s: They control how many calls you can make in an interval of time.... 23 April 2025 4 min read
Louis Davidson in Blogs LLM Technical Editor Test – ChatGPT with a VERY wrong article As started in part 1 of this series, I have set out to test an LLMs ability to technical edit.... 16 April 2025 17 min read
Lukas Vileikis in Blogs Announcing Database Frontiers: a Database Conference You Haven’t Yet Heard About Database Frontiers is a new database conference hitting the spotlight come October 15th, 2025. Here’s everything you need to know.… 15 April 2025 3 min read
Louis Davidson in Blogs New Series – Testing LLMs as Technical Editors I spend a lot of editing articles from various authors about a wide variety of topics. I do my best... 14 April 2025 6 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Query Performance Analysis in Lakehouses You may have already discovered the 4 special views the lakehouse has in the queryinsights schema to track query performance.... 09 April 2025 4 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Fabric Database: Advanced Vector Search Features A few weeks ago, I delivered some sessions about vector search in Fabric Databases and Azure SQL. Let’s talk about... 02 April 2025 6 min read
Ben Johnston in Blogs Managed Instance Gotchas – Error Conditions I was recently on a project to migrate a very transactional installation of SQL Server to Azure SQL Managed Instance... 31 March 2025 9 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Fabric: Query a SQL Endpoint from a Notebook Let’s analyse why we would like to query an SQL Endpoint. Once we understand why, we can dig into how... 26 March 2025 5 min read
Louis Davidson in Blogs Simple Talk on the Road In March The holidays truly are over, and it is time to hit the road again here at Simple Talk. In March... 06 March 2025 3 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs How Shortcuts affect Lakehouse’s Maintenance I wrote about lakehouse maintenance before, about multiple lakehouse maintenances, published videos about this subject and provided sample code about... 05 March 2025 3 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Fabric Databases Connection Secrets Fabric Database was a great announcement during Ignite Conference. The announcement spread all around, a great new feature. This feature... 19 February 2025 4 min read
Ben Johnston in Blogs SQL Server 2022 CU Updates and Error Code 0x851A0043 I’ve been working in the Azure space for the last few years and less with full server installations. Azure leaves... 18 February 2025 5 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Analysing Kusto Query Performance In Fabric We already discovered how to investigate Kusto query history. Let’s discover how to analyse query performance considering the information on... 06 February 2025 6 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs SQL Endpoint Secrets you need to know Recently I had a severe problem with SQL endpoints and I was required to build a quick workaround for this.... 29 January 2025 5 min read
Louis Davidson in Blogs Weekly Blogging I spent a few weeks away from the office in early January, just like last year, mostly on vacation. Something... 27 January 2025 3 min read
