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

Mirroring SQL Server 2025 to Microsoft Fabric, a level deeper Maybe you've read my blog post in the DP-700 certification series about mirroring data. You can find that one here. This blog will be longer and more technical. And involve SQL Server. To make reading a little easier, I've listed the Microsoft Learn pages at the end of this blog post. While writing the DP-700 post, I realised I wanted to dig a little deeper.

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This time a deep dive into SQL Server 2025 mirroring into Microsoft Fabric.

#SQLServer2025
#MicrosoftFabric
#Mirroring
#DataReplication

“AI is down”

Microsoft Fabric, taking over orphaned deployment pipelines Last week, we ran into an issue where deployment pipelines are owned by a person who no longer works for our organisation. This meant we could not access the deployment pipelines owned by this account. API The way to recover them is to use API's. At first, we all thought that using the Fabric API's would work, but they didn't. After asking around, we found out that we should use the Power BI API's.

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This time on taking over the ownership of an orphaned deployment pipeline using PowerShell.

#MicrosoftFabric
#DeploymentPipeline
#API
#PowerShell
#PowerBI

Getting Started With Log Shipping with John Morehouse In this video, Microsoft Data Platform MVP John Morehouse walks you through the fundamentals of SQL Server Log Shipping and how it fits into a solid disaster...

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 And got great feedback on what was missing or outdated.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

Photograph of two computer 9-pin serial connectors attached side by side on a PCB. The one on the left has a red finish and it's labelled Serial Port. The one on the right is green and labelled Serial Starboard.

There’s one, a shortcut to th Darwin Awards

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

a man in a suit and bow tie is saluting in front of a chalkboard and says yes sir . ALT: a man in a suit and bow tie is saluting in front of a chalkboard and says yes sir .

No worries, submissions done!

a man wearing a sweater with a dog on it is standing in front of an explosion ALT: a man wearing a sweater with a dog on it is standing in front of an explosion

Preview of Daniel in a few hours ;)

Why didn't anyone mention we're in 2026 already ;)

That's good to know when planning my return flight :)

If you need to vent, or bounce ideas off, you know where to find me.

Are you playing with carthesian joins again?

I would like to go in private, so no cookies, please?

Only when you enter from 127.0.0.1

On the Other Side of the World I’m in Redmond this week for the Microsoft MVP Summit - 4000 MVPs, 83 buildings across 500 acres, and not a single roadmap leak to share. The summit is NDA-covered, but that was never the point anyway...

PS. This blog builds on the one written by @arcticdba.se
www.arcticdba.se/posts/other-...

Building with the letters RBAC on the front.

So, what role does one need to enter?

But maybe access to Access?

The plan was to go for a burger. Then there was the option for stuttering bacon. This improved the experience as a whole. Apparently, they detected the European vibes, as part of the burger was set to 'Ikea mode', aka build it yourself with these parts on your plate.
But it was good!

So good seeing you there, James!

MVP Summit 2026 Disclaimer: This blog will focus only on experiences and tips for newcomers. It will not contain any information on what was discussed at the MVP Summit. Preparation Preparing for the MVP Summit is key. You have to build your schedule, but also try to see if product managers, engineers, and others are available to catch up over a cup of coffee.

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This time on my experiences at MVP Summit and some tips for newcomers next year.

#Microsoft
#MVPSummit
#Community

Would you recognise the difference?

You could, if you’d also accept that the elevator no longer abides the laws of gravity.

Using is a bit of a stretch, but yes.

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

#msAccess

In essence, if you can mimic a cappuccino, you’re halfway there speaking Dutch.
And yes, the Germans stole our language 😉

I have opinions ;)