Ireland's continuing lack of awareness of the presence of global far-right influence/activism in Ireland literally keeps me awake at night

Where do you even start with #MicrosoftFabric governance? On 2026-04-16, Paul Andrew breaks down capacities, domains, workspaces, and how to organise data products for effective delivery to your business users. swfta.uk/ug-2026-04

#DataGovernance #Analytics

Hey there, thanks for the offer! I'm all good though, rolled my site back to before the install and it's all good now.

Ah yeah I fully admit this is a ridiculous use case but I had to find some data to demo and restaurant review data is perfect for this type of search

haha, new blog post...

The Burrito Bot: AI-Powered Search in SQL Server 2025

This post details, from the ground up, how to perform searches over embeddings in SQL 2025...to provide burrito recommendations in Ireland!

(at last...something useful built with AI)

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My thoughts exactly

Crushing...

Haha, great recommendation!

Ok I think my blood pressure is back down to normal after that

getting the site reverted now...so it looks like it's going to be fixed

REALLY did not want to have to manually go through all my posts and fix that

I know I know, my fault for using wordpress but haven't had any issues in 13 years...but this is a big one

I've got the formatting back but all characters like < > " ' have been changed to html entities (&quot;)

Argh, so I installed a plugin on my site which apparently converted my wordpress site to a "plugin enabled" site....which has broken all code formatting on ALL my posts...

EightKB is back for 2026!

The largest online SQL Server internals conference is coming on August 20th...and the CFP is open!

Calling all you experts out there...fancy talking at the online SQL Server conference? :-)

dbafromthecold.com/2026/03/18/e...

To everyone at Data Saturday Chicago, thank you so much!

Hope my session was useful!

Can't make tonight. Getting to the location would be tight on time and we're fairly shattered...will be nice and fresh for tomorrow!

Will do!

Just managed to land, bit of a bounce but we're down!

See you tomorrow fella!

On our way over to Data Saturday Chicago!

Haha, it all worked....phew

About to do the first public presentation on The Burrito Bot!

Oh I hope this all works...

MicrosoftFabricMgmt: Error Handling - Retry Logic and Long Running Operations

Introduction REST APIs fail. Networks are unreliable. Cloud services have rate limits. If your automation script does not account for this, it will eventually break at the worst possib
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Picture of laptop covered in conference stickers

Still adding to the stickers

Absolute madness

I love the six nations

#SCOvFRA

If Wales beat Italy next weekend, bottom will have beaten a team who beat whoever finishes top. That's some proper, vintage, all-time tournament shit.

GitHub - jdanton/query-store-reports: Visual Studio Code Extension for Query Store Functionality Visual Studio Code Extension for Query Store Functionality - jdanton/query-store-reports

ICYMI: If you use SQL Server on a non-Windows OS, and want cool Query Store reports, go here. github.com/jdanton/quer... It's beta, but it works, and I'd like some more feedback.

Picture of an Irish passport

Woooooooooooo!

Wooooo I've created a web app in Azure that's so secure no-one can access it

Wales grasped defeat out of the jaws of victory

Great performance by Ireland!