Of course, and I think of my little #SQLSister, Jen!

You know what say, “Don’t Stop Believin’”

Okay, now you got my attention!

I’m not making any plans. European, Australian and New Zealand Conferences is where I hope to show up, and perhaps some Canadian regional events. Sorry Friends.

I did have to google Schleich though. Never heard of them.

Attacked by a sheep? Nah, I’m fine with 1 real sheep. I’ll just speak Canadian to them to confuse them if they’re in a fuss - Canadians and New Zealanders are sensible, peaceful people. The correct answer is leave the sheep alone and they won’t attack you. Final answer, for the win!

In 9 1/2 months I will be 55. Hey I can still Immigrate to New Zealand. Looks Like DBA is on Tier 1 of the Green List of In-demand jobs. Now I just need a Job offer!

Yeah, I’m eating a pan of Nanaimo Bars and hoping it wipes out all memories of the event.
I’m 1/4 way through the pan.
No luck yet, so I will continue eating. Maybe the addition of a coffee would help. With Bailey’s perhaps!

Yes, this tends to be my most productive time too, but at the expense of Deep Sleep stages.

I’ll be lucky if it hits 9… 6 right now.

Had a 1 hour Power BI Intro session today. 12 minutes into the session my video subsystem crashes. Teams continued, attempted recovery a few times before rebooting. The PC started up at turtle 🐢 speed. Demo Gods were upset with me today.

Manage Change in Power BI Reports & Semantic Models with Git | Scott Stauffer, Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 9:00 AM | Meetup **Details** **\*\*NOTE:** This meeting we are partnering with the VanPUG - Vancouver Power BI & Modern Excel User Group. We (VMDPP), will provide an in-person experience, a

📣 Last chance to join the IN PERSON portion of our next meet-up, where you can catch up with me and @sqlsocialite.bsky.social live and on site. Registrations for the in-person event must be done by 9AM PDT on July 22, 2025! Go to www.meetup.com/vancouver-mi...

Manage Change in Power BI Reports & Semantic Models with Git | Scott Stauffer, Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 9:00 AM | Meetup **Details** **\*\*NOTE:** This meeting we are partnering with the VanPUG - Vancouver Power BI & Modern Excel User Group. We (VMDPP), will provide an in-person experience, a

I'll be hosting and speaking at an event next week in Vancouver, BC. This will be the 1st in-person event for this new Meetup Group - Vancouver Microsoft Data Platform Professionals! Check out the details and register today.
Hope to see you Thursday July 24th @ 9AM!

www.meetup.com/vancouver-mi...

Manage Change in Power BI Reports & Semantic Models with Git | Scott Stauffer, Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 9:00 AM | Meetup **Details** **\*\*NOTE:** This meeting we are partnering with the VanPUG - Vancouver Power BI & Modern Excel User Group. We (VMDPP), will provide an in-person experience, a

Register here for the In-Person portion of the Event!

www.meetup.com/vancouver-mi...

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Manage Change in Power BI Reports & Semantic Models with Git | Scott Stauffer, Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 10:00 AM | Meetup ***\*\*NOTE:*** *This meeting we are partnering with the new Vancouver Microsoft Data Platform Professionals Meetup. VMDPP will provide an in-person experience, and VanPUG

Unfortunately, #PowerBI does little to help you compare changes across versions, or indicate "who made what change, when?" 😭
But don't be discouraged! @sqlsocialite.bsky.social has a solution using Git and the .pbip file format. 😄

Join us on July 24, sign up here: www.meetup.com/vancouver-po...

Struggling with Paginated Reports which is served by DAX, with parameters, and my gosh why does it always break the report when I make a minor change to the DAX... It seems I have to delete the parameter all over again to get it linked back up... is this just me...?

Carney’s Checkmate: How Canada's Quiet Bond Play Forced Trump to Drop Tariffs Carney, Japan And The EU proved America's Idiot Emperor Has No Clothes

I found this article very intriguing!
Carney’s Checkmate: How Canada's Quiet Bond Play Forced Trump to Drop Tariffs
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

I feel like I'm missing so much... Sending hugs anyways...

To be clear, I'll be cheering Stephanie Bruno (wait, is she not on Bluesky?) and Shannon Lindsay ( @shan-gsd.bsky.social ) on as they conjure up their magic! They are luminaries in our community. I'm so lucky to know them. I'll be helping attendees during lab time, as they work on magic potions.

Forget about the tea leaves, there’s a smiley face in my empty coffee mug! I hope that’s a sign that 2025 is going to be happier!

An old Lang sign.

I love it!

trainingsupport.microsoft.com

This site was working and now it is down.
It is a MS Support forum.
Pearson OneVUE Support directed me to it in order to get my exam link resent.

It is for my Fabric DP-600 Exam that I hope to write in the next 48 hours. 😢

Reach out if you have connections.

#dp600

Yeah, I constantly have/had issues with Hyper V Networking over the years... I keep thinking, "They MUST have fixed it by NOW!"... nope...

I’m definitely NOT going to miss this…

Build REST API for your database in minutes and with "4 lines of code" using .NET Aspire 9 and a couple of Community Toolkit packages! You can use the API via Swagger right away!
#dotnet #sqlserver #azure #aspire #api

I’d rather have a puppy that could talk! 😉

Well, it’s not portable!

I’ve never looked at my memory utilization since getting 128GB of RAM!

And the. There are the 100+ browser windows!