Are my dashboarding days numbered? I've put Claude Design through its paces on visual analytics (@anthropic) - and here's my write up of the experience . thedatavist.substack.com/p/are-my-das... #dataviz #datafam #databs #datasky
The Register published a report on DuckLake v1.0 and cited our recent post:
> In a blog post accompanying the 1.0 launch, Pedro Holanda, DuckDB Labs principal engineer, said the company's benchmark shows 926× faster queries and 105× faster ingestion when compared to Iceberg, the open table format.
Book review time:
A few months ago I adopted an incredibly shy calico cat. It took her 24h to leave the carrier after we brought her home. We set up her little corner with all a new cat needs in a new home, but all she wanted was to remain hidden in the tightest possible corners she could find.
We are happy to release DuckLake v1.0, a production-ready lakehouse format specification. Its reference implementation, the ducklake DuckDB extension, is available as of today in DuckDB v1.5.2.
For more details, read the announcement blog post:
ducklake.select/2026/04/13/d...
Das Ergebnis in Ungarn ist sehr schlecht für die gesammelten europäischen rechtsradikalen Arschlöcher. Die verlieren gerade ihr Hauptquartier.
There is a trend I am seeing more in the Business Intelligence space, driven by AI shenanigans, that I find really concerning, and I really want to write about it.
That web design look you get using Tailwind, CSS, React is not desirable, nor useful with Business Intelligence tools.
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Free SQL Server query plan analysis, right in your browser: plans.erikdarling.com
Powered by the same analysis engine as Performance Studio. XML doesn't leave your browser, so you can stay private.
Full open-source stack for running at low cost for mid-scale companies.
Such as Dagster + DuckDB + dbt + Airbyte.
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SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for April 2026
New blog post: SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for April 2026
glennsqlperformance.com/2026/04/05/s...
#SQLServer #SQLServer2025
I started creating a vega-lite builder to help me teach people how to create visuals in Deneb. I think there are some pretty nice features in it, so feel free to take a look and see if it could be useful to you, too.
#PowerBI #Datavis #VegaLite #Deneb
powerbiferrytales.github.io/vegalite.html
Bei #Lanz zu Gast heute: die Tochter von Wolfgang Schäuble, der Sohn von Fritz Pleitgen und der Enkel von Helmut Kohl.
Software development in the age of Claude Code
I love Microsoft, but it's so painful to watch how badly they're fumbling Copilot. "Copilot Edited an Ad Into My PR" notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edit... And the relevant Microsoft product manager has removed that after the public exposure today: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4757...
29/31 #WomensHistoryMonth @mer__edith President of the Signal Foundation. a leading global expert on the social & political implications of AI. advocacy for digital privacy and critical stance on the "surveillance business model" en.wikipedia.org/wik...
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so many good people at TE
just learned the Rush Instrumental YYZ is about Toronto airport.
I have to admit my very first thought was vice versa
DuckDB just casually in the nVidia keynote. AI doesn't make databases irrelevant, it makes them more relevant than ever.
creeping consequences of technical debt in distributed systems.
SARGability is one of the highest return on investment performance skills a SQL developer can learn. Small changes to predicates can turn expensive scans into efficient seeks; often without adding or changing indexes. sqlmct.com/writing-sarg...
New blog post: Did you know that there is a MissingField parameter in some Power Query table and record functions to tell it what to do if the columns in your data change from time to time? #PowerQuery
jenkuntz.ca/2026/03/powe...
Promp Bingo! Thats nails it.
ah, the days of trolling people with fake broadcast messages learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/da...
A print copy of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd edition
Just received my author copies of the second edition of DDIA! After years of seeing it only on-screen, holding the final print book in hand is very special. @chris.blue
MicrosoftFabricMgmt: Help and Discovery - Finding Your Way Around 295+ Cmdlets
Introduction Most of this blog post is going to be more about PowerShell in general than this specific module. The MicrosoftFabricMgmt module has over 295 cmdlets, which can be overwh
blog.robsewell.com/blog/microso...
SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for March 2026
New blog post: SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for March 2026
glennsqlperformance.com/2026/03/01/s...
#SQLServer #SQLServer2025
My NYE 2026 bingo predictions include MSFT Exec Quits" and "Steve dies in Stranger Things"
Score one for the NYE 2026 bingo board
Yesterday I built a full end-to-end PoC stack with OpenAI Codex 🚀, from frontend to backend to database, and then added load testing and observability across the entire flow 📈
Current architecture:
Vite web frontend 🖥️ -> Rust backend service 🦀 -> PostgreSQL 🐘
