Kay Sauter
@kaysauter.bsky.social
Data Platform MVP. Data solution architect. #a11y. Cochlear Implants. databash.live & aka.ms/dataTGIF organizer. He/him
The most expensive code your data team ships this year won't be written by a human. It'll be generated by AI assistant. It'll look correct, but it'll quitely drop 14% of your rows because the join type was wrong. AI-assisted data engineering is here. courses.data-mozart.com
AI-Native Data Engineering with Microsoft Fabric
A live 4-hour, code-first workshop on Fabric implementation, agentic scaffolding, metadata-driven ingestion, validation, cost, and production trust.
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A moment of disbelief! A little more than a year ago, when I started writing a book about #MicrosoftFabric, I couldn't have imagined that the day would come when I would have a physical copy in my hands...
I'm thrilled to announce that my 26th course at Pluralsight has just been released! Enterprise data succeeds when it is managed as a shared business asset. This course will teach you to recognize common data challenges and recommend practical improvements. www.pluralsight.com/courses/ente...
Introduction to Enterprise Data Management
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In about 20 minutes, data TGIF hits off again today! #dataTGIF #free #meetup #online www.meetup.com/data-tgif/even…
Dashboard Literacy: Designing dashboards people actually understand, Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 5:00 PM | Meetup
Dashboards are often seen as a technical output. In reality, they are something else: a way to explain information to people so they can make decisions. In this session, I
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Full day, hands-on: build a production-grade Fabric lakehouse end to end. Metadata-driven ingestion, medallion, Delta optimization, Direct Lake. Real invoice-to-cash scenario, 3 sources. FabCon Europe 2026, Barcelona. espc.tech/conference/f...
Happy birthday my friend @dbanuggets.bsky.social! I hope you’ll have a great day today and enjoy your family.
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This Thursday, I'll be talking at the Microsoft Fabric UK User Group, about transitioning from data analyst to data engineer and upgrading your skills from Dataflows Gen2 to notebooks. It's free and it's online, so RSVP: www.meetup.com/microsoft-po...
Transition from Data Analyst to Data Engineer, Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Join our Microsoft Fabric - UK User Group for our latest webinar. This session we are excited to announce our host Microsoft MVP Leon Gordon and co-host Microsoft MVP Prag
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My latest article at @towardsdatascience.com has just been published! This is a deep dive on Materialized Lake Views in #MicrosoftFabric. towardsdatascience.com/materialized...
Materialized Lake Views in Microsoft Fabric: When Your Medallion Fits in a SELECT Statement | Towards Data Science
Five surfaces collapsed into one declarative layer. Here's the full story of Materialized Lake Views in Microsoft Fabric - from syntax to the new GA capabilities
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Still getting your head around #MicrosoftFabric? Not sure if you should take lakehouse or warehouse path? What changes in #PowerBI workloads? Next Monday, I'll be running live online training at @oreilly.bsky.social to help you get started with the Fabric. www.oreilly.com/live-events/...
Getting Started With Microsoft Fabric
Learn the fundamental skills to work with Microsoft Fabric
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Microsoft is hosting its annual Build developer conference today. It’s time for developers, developers, developers, and AI, AI, and AI. All the details on how to watch and follow along, below 👇 www.theverge.com/news/669276/...
How to watch Microsoft’s Build 2025 conference
It’s all about AI for Build 2025
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Love the talk by David Schneider from at Azure Bootcamp Berne 2026, explaining why AI projects may fail and how to avoid this.
Just arrived at azure boot camp 2026, together with a team mate. Looking forward to a great day of learnings #azure #azurebootcamp
NEW BLOG POST! Quick question for Fabric Warehouse folks: If clustering reduces CPU by 40% and I/O by 69%, but elapsed time stays the same, is it working? Yes. And the explanation is more interesting than the answer. 100M-row demo with real numbers: data-mozart.com/cluster-by-i...
CLUSTER BY in Fabric Warehouse: when the magic shows up and when it doesn't! - Data Mozart
Microsoft's announcement post for data clustering in Fabric Warehouse promised 24x speedups. So I built a 100-million-row clickstream table and tested it myself. The result is more nuanced than the ma...
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On-premises data gateway April 2026 release by Irtoyou #Azure community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Up...
On-premises data gateway April 2026 release
Author: Leo Li - Principal Program Manager ________________________________________________ The April 2026 release of the on-premises data gateway is (version 3000.314). New Features On-premises Data...
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Azure SQL BACPAC Export Failure with CDC & db_cdcreader (SQL71501) by Mohamed Baioumy techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-dat...
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#VSCode Curbs Token Use Ahead of Copilot's Controversial Usage-Based Billing Switch by David Ramel visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/202...
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Fabric April 2026 Feature Summary by Katie Murray #VSCode #MicrosoftFabric #Azure blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-GB/blog/f...
Fabric April 2026 Feature Summary
Welcome to the April 2026 Microsoft Fabric update! This month’s update brings a broad set of new capabilities across Microsoft Fabric, spanning the platform experience, Data Engineering, Data Science,...
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Windows 11's new CPU boost trick may make apps feel faster, but it also rewards lazy software optimization and hardware brute force. #Windows11 #Performance
Windows 11 is getting faster the lazy way
Windows 11's new CPU boost trick may make apps feel faster, but it also rewards lazy software optimization and hardware brute force.
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Today is world password day, so don't forget to tell your password he's a strong good password
PCI-SIG has confirmed PCIe 8.0 is expected in 2028 with immensely higher bandwidth for next-gen NVMe SSDs and GPUs. Interestingly, a new connector is coming. #PCIe8 #SSD
PCIe 8.0 launching in 2028 with a new connector, 8 times faster NVMe SSDs and GPUs
PCI-SIG has confirmed PCIe 8.0 is expected in 2028 with immensely higher bandwidth for next-gen NVMe SSDs and GPUs. Interestingly, a new connector is coming.
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#Azure Data Studio is retired: Move your #AzureSQL workflow to #VSCode in 10 minutes devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/az... #Microsoft #SQLServer #SqlDBA #MadeiraData
Azure Data Studio is retired: Move your Azure SQL workflow to VS Code in 10 minutes - Azure SQL Dev Corner
Azure Data Studio (ADS) retired on February 6, 2025, and support ended on February 28, 2026. The recommended path forward is Visual Studio Code with the MSSQL extension. If you used ADS daily, this…
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Raki is all over Reddit sharing tons of great advice and musings.
I think one of the lesser know blogs that really deserve more attention is the one by Raki Rahman whom blog I came across today. www.rakirahman.me I am really impressed of the knowledge he’s posting here!
Raki Rahman
Big Data & AI
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In my new blog post, I ask you to help me for a change. Do you have suggestions for a good video hosting platform? Please let me know! sqlserverfast.com/blog/hugo/20...
Request for help – video hosting - SQLServerFast
I create a lot of videos for the SQL Server community. These come in three categories. Recordings of conference sessions. Sometimes made by myself, sometimes by the conference organization. Typically ...
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Reading: Anthony Nocentino is doing what Microsoft gave up on 6-7 years ago: www.nocentino.com/posts/2026-0...
Introducing the SQL Server on Kubernetes Operator - Anthony Nocentino's Blog
An open-source Kubernetes operator that automates deploying and managing SQL Server Always On Availability Groups, including automatic failover, certificate exchange, and listener routing.
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📣 The POSETTE 2026 schedule just dropped! Big welcome to this year’s fabulous Postgres speakers. Check out the schedule and start planning your can’t-miss sessions. Don’t forget to Register & Save-the-Date. 🗓️ posetteconf.com/2026/schedule/
Schedule | POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026
Schedule and Sessions for POSETTE: An Event for Postgres, a virtual and free developer event happening Jun 16-18, 2026. There will be 4 separate livestreams. Organized by the Postgres team at…
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Taiob Ali (sqlworldwide.bsky.social) Microsoft Data Platform MVP, compares PostgreSQL & SQL Server security models, including differences in how they handle user authentication, roles, & permissions Register for updates to POSETTE 2026 Livestream 1 on Tue 16 Jun posetteconf.com/2026/talks/p...
More and more organizations, publishers, and creators are abandoning legacy platforms that throttle their reach. Bluesky gives them a direct line to their audiences, without suppression or gatekeeping bsky.app/profile/eff....
Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 4mo agoAfter almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
