Steve Jones in Editorials Evolving SQL Saturday Steve Jones explains the exciting rebranding of the SQL Saturday events, beginning in 2026 with plans for full integration in... 10 December 2025 4 min read 21
Dennes Torres in Other 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 1
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 1
Lukas Vileikis in Other 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 Other 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 1
Louis Davidson in Other 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 111
Dennes Torres in Other 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 Other 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 2
Dennes Torres in Other 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 1
Dennes Torres in Other 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 22
Louis Davidson in Other 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 11
Dennes Torres in Other Azure SQL Serverless: Discover What’s new and Increase Your Savings Before jumping into the news and code, let’s start from the beginning: Why does someone use Azure SQL Serverless? The... 22 January 2025 3 min read 21
Dennes Torres in Other Fabric Copy Job: What’s new in it At first sight, the new Copy Job may seem only one more redundancy: Why do we need this? We have... 15 January 2025 2 min read 1
Lukas Vileikis in Other I Wrote a Book on How You Broke Your Database – Here’s Why You Should Read It This blog introduces the book "Hacking MySQL: Breaking, Optimizing, and Securing MySQL for Your Use Case" by Lukas Vileikis.… 10 January 2025 7 min read
Microsoft Fabric Dennes Torres in Microsoft Fabric High Concurrency Data Pipelines in Fabric Data Pipelines can orchestrate many activities, creating a flow for data ingestion. One of these activities is the notebook execution... 08 January 2025 2 min read
Dennes Torres in Other T-SQL Tuesday #181: Query Store and its evolution Query Store. This is my choice in relation to “What feature release made you say WOW!”, the subject of this... 09 December 2024 4 min read 1
Dennes Torres in Other KQL: The top of a group in an easy way When learning something new, we always compare it with what we know. In this case, we end up comparing KQL... 13 November 2024 3 min read
Dennes Torres in Other Analyzing Kusto Query History in Fabric We can consume a Kusto database in Fabric from many different places: Notebooks, semantic models, real time dashboards and more.... 07 November 2024 5 min read
Dennes Torres in Other T-SQL Notebooks: Manage Views Source Control and more T-SQL Notebooks is one of the new features announced during FabCon Europe. The most distracted could miss the fact this... 31 October 2024 3 min read 1
Dennes Torres in Other Shortcuts, Capacities and Costs : Some Considerations Edit on 25/10/2024: According to some official documentations, there is an inaccuracy on this blog. The costs involved on data... 23 October 2024 3 min read 2
