Practical guides and insights for modern data practitioners
In this post I share my thoughts about the Azure Data Studio retirement announcement. For those who missed it, this week Microsoft announced that Azure Data Studio will be retired on February 28th 2026. So that Microsoft can focus on consolidating their efforts into Visual Studio Code. Personal thoughts about the retirement announcement For me … Read more
In this post I cover how you can be kind to attendees eyes when presenting. Because I think it is an important thing to be aware of. I wanted to cover this because even though people have covered various aspects about this over the years, I have still seen people do some interesting things in … Read more
In this post I want to raise awareness about the fact that the new Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse Target Platform is now included as part of the latest Azure Data Studio update. Which is 1.46. In reality, I have already covered the new target platform in my previous post. Due to the fact that this … Read more
In this post I want to cover spreading your SQL Server wings with Azure SQL Edge. As part of a series of posts about spreading your SQL Server wings with the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform. You can find out more about this series of posts in an introductory post I published about the series. By … Read more
You can consider this post to be a follow up to my Data Toboggan session on how you can create a database project for use with Azure Synapse Link for SQL Server 2022. This post covers the below: As promised during Data Toboggan a diagram is included in this post. In the next post I … Read more
In this post I want to cover how you can create a dacpac for an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL Pool using GitHub Actions. By the end of this post, you will know how to create a dacpac for a dedicated SQL Pool within GitHub Actions for your CI/CD deployments. Creating database project for Azure … Read more
In this post I want to cover how you can create a dacpac for an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL Pool using Azure DevOps. By the end of this post, you will know how to create a dacpac for a dedicated SQL Pool within Azure Pipelines for your CI/CD deployments. Plus, how you can synchronize … Read more
In this post I want to cover how you can create a dacpac for an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL Pool using Azure Data Studio. Because somebody asked if it’s possible to create a dacpac for a SQL Pool a while back. Using the #SQLHelp hashtag on Twitter. In fact, it was asked whilst I … Read more
My T-SQL Tuesday contribution for this month is about the using Notebooks more with Azure Data Engineering services. Which is hosted this month by Steve Jones. Steve has invited us all to talk about how we have used, or would like to use, a Jupyter Notebook. You can find out more about the invite by … Read more
My T-SQL contribution for this month is about Azure Data Studio and my coffee machine. Because the two go together nicely when I am presenting. This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Mikey Bronowski. Mikey has invited us all to talk about outstanding tools of the trade to make our lives awesome. You can find … Read more