Dennes Torres in Blogs Cloud Connections in Microsoft Fabric I wrote about cloud connections when they were in a very early stage. Cloud connections evolved and are now sharable.... 09 October 2024 4 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Debugging DAX with DAX Query View DAX Query View was created some time ago and it was a great tool to run DAX inside Power BI... 25 September 2024 3 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Infinity Notebook Loop in Fabric using Data Activator Data Activator allow us to make an interesting workaround for infinity notebook executions. Infinity execution loop is interesting for constant... 20 September 2024 4 min read
Lukas Vileikis in Blogs Thoughts Before Covering MariaDB Indexes in the MariaDB Server Fest 2024 This blog outlines why you should be coming to see a talk on MariaDB indexes at the MariaDB Server Fest... 13 September 2024 4 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Data Activator: The secrets of monitoring alerts Data Activator supports email and Teams alerts. These are good options when we would like to monitor some information and... 11 September 2024 2 min read
Lukas Vileikis in Blogs Devising the Perfect Index for Your Use Case – MySQL Edition This blog will walk you through how to choose the perfect index for your specific use case. It will also... 11 September 2024 7 min read
Grant Fritchey in Blogs What Did AI Ever Do for Me? Let me start with a simple confession, and I hope it’s not too shocking for anyone; I’m old. When I... 09 September 2024 3 min read
Dennes Torres Microsoft Fabric and PySpark: Coding tricks to improve your solutions PySpark has some unconventional syntaxes which provide power to the development process, making it easier. We talked about loops before. Let’s... 04 September 2024 4 min read
Louis Davidson in Blogs Why don’t you work like this? No matter how much I love social media, there are some annoying patterns that work better than most sincere ones.... 04 September 2024 5 min read
Ben Johnston in Blogs Choosing Data Types and Column Options An entire post on choosing the correct data types either seems like overkill or much needed and overdue. The perspective... 31 August 2024 27 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs The Big IT Outage: Where are we going? As you all know about, just a few weeks ago we had the big CrowdStrike global IT outage. Some lucky... 28 August 2024 5 min read
Ben Johnston in Blogs Auditing SQL Server – Part 4 – Database Configuration Audit This continues my series on auditing SQL Server. The fist parts covered discovery and documentation, server level hardware audits and... 20 August 2024 15 min read
Louis Davidson in Editorials PASS Summit Scholarships? Awesome! This year, PASS is introducing scholarships to support individuals who might not typically have the opportunity to attend the PASS... 15 August 2024 3 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs PySpark: The flexibility of a loop Pyspark has many flexible syntaxes which are not so common to other languages. One of these syntaxes is the loop... 15 August 2024 3 min read
Lukas Vileikis in Blogs Thoughts Before Speaking at the Software Architecture Conference This blog shares the thoughts of a conference speaker Lukas Vileikis before speaking at a conference called Software Architecture Conference.… 14 August 2024 3 min read
Dennes Torres Microsoft Fabric: Using Lakehouse data in Real Time Dashboards Real-Time dashboards are a great feature in Real Time Intelligence experience to monitor our data. However, by default it’s made... 08 August 2024 2 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Microsoft Fabric: Differences Between %Run and Notebook.Run When developing notebooks in Microsoft Fabric, we have two different methods to call one notebook from another: %Run and MSSparkUtils.notebook.run... 31 July 2024 2 min read
Ben Johnston in Blogs Auditing SQL Server – Part 3 – SQL Server Configuration Audit This is the continuation of my series on auditing SQL Server. In the first part, I discussed basic server discovery... 25 July 2024 21 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs AI Studio and The New AI Features When Microsoft announced the new AI Studio, it was easy to mistake it by any of the other studios available.... 25 July 2024 3 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Microsoft Fabric: Moving Dataflows Gen 2 to different workspaces Dataflows Gen 2 are not supported by source control and deployment pipelines yet. When we need to promote a dataflow... 17 July 2024 2 min read