With the demise of both ADS and Polyglot, does anyone know of any functioning, supported VSCode extension that can bundle PowerShell and T-SQL in a Jupyter notebook?
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I write C# and T-SQL code that scales well. I teach others to do it. DBAs like me.
If you're getting these, I won't judge. But I will ask if you're ok.
A database I'm working on uses SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE for some unknown reason, and it is absolutely destroying my T-SQL compositional muscle memory.
Reason #742 we're living in an alternate timeline: I've become a Bette Midler fan today.
The github bot just recommended WITH (NOLOCK) on a PR. I wish it had feelings, so that I could hurt them.
Two months. In case anyone cares, it took me two months of using the preinstalled Windows 11 on my new gaming PC before I wiped it and installed Windows 10. Man, I wish EAC worked for iRacing on Linux...
www.nbcnews.com/sports/auto-... For decades, I have been as big a fan of IMS and IndyCar as anyone I know. That stops now.
Trump orders up IndyCar race on the streets of Washington for 'America250 Grand Prix'
IndyCar has embraced the idea. Trump will sign an executive order Friday instructing his administration to work with Washington's mayor to launch the race in late August.
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Found a NOLOCK hint in an audit trigger. Thanks, mystery developer, I needed a laugh.
Data Saturday Columbus 2025, is this Saturday. We would like to thank our gold sponsors, Dallas DBAs and DBADuck Consulting. We still plenty of space for you to join us, meet our sponsors, and get your learn on! datasaturdays.com/Event/202508... cc: @kevin3nf.bsky.social @dbaduck.bsky.social
Cheering for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and his en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_m.... If only 4 GOP congressmen would grow a spine, then Independence Day could live up to its name.
Magic minute - Wikipedia
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My representative, @carson.house.gov, was one of the 344 members of the House who voted to table an impeachment resolution yesterday. I hope this comes back to bite every last one of them.
They apparently played Fortunate Son at the pander parade yesterday. Let that sink in.
Yes, measuring the productivity of your software engineers by the number of PRs per engineer is totally a good indicator of productivity and not at all something that we would then gamify at the cost of making our actual productivity less optimal.
If you are US military, including Guard, girightshotline.org can answer questions about things like consientious objections.
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Found via @brento.bsky.social : dansinker.com/posts/2025-0... This sums up my thoughts on the matter far better than I could.
The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com
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Talking to someone who still uses that other platform. He hates it, but he must because that's where college recruiters are scouting his players. This seems indicative of where the conversion movement is currently at.
It's my favorite month of the year! www.youtube.com/watch?v=skCh... Good luck to my fellow runners tomorrow
Indy 500 Montage
YouTube video by David Dearing
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Hey @thetimdurham.bsky.social, fan of the show. Running my 4th Mini this year. DM me if you want any tips.
1/4 One irony of SignalGate centers on the tech itself. It's been broadcast that the Pentagon announced a "vulnerability" of Signal on March 18th (see www.npr.org/2025/03/25/n...). As an end-to-end encrypted platform, the actual vulnerability isn't in the platform itself, but in the "ends" of it.
Days after the Signal leak, the Pentagon warned the app was the target of hackers
A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warned against using Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
npr.org
I guess techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azuresq... makes sense, but I see two issues: 1) Having to switch to relying on a 3p extension in VSCode for SQL Jupyter notebooks. 2) Getting SQL people to take a "repo-first" mentality is not helped by this. They will revert to SSMS, not VSCode.
Azure Data Studio Retirement | Microsoft Community Hub
We’re announcing the upcoming retirement of Azure Data Studio (ADS) on February 6, 2025, as we focus on delivering a modern, streamlined SQL...
techcommunity.microsoft.com
Hey #sqlfamily, what was that _ONE_ thing you got from #PASSDataSummit this week? Now that I've had one good night's sleep, I wanna find out what I might've overlooked.
Hope it was time well spent for those who attended my #PASSDataSummit session today. "Ten pounds of stuff in a 5-pound sack" is how I assessed it. I'll do better next time.
Today is a great day to support Women In Tech (WIT)! We have #datawit ribbons at #PASSDataSummit. I'll put some in the community zone and will be handing them out as I see you.
Got my "I voted" sticker today. Reminder to US-based Redgate PASS Summit attendees: Many of us fly out on Election Day
One popular alternative form of the Ship of Theseus thought experiment is the "grandfather's axe". All founding members of Molly Hatchet (which has an upcoming show in Sarasota) are deceased.