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Understanding the granular way that OneLake Security works & how to secure the Lakehouse SQL Analytics Endpoint is IMPORTANT! But don't worry we've got you covered! Link: youtu.be/TcbvjbZm2bA @sqlballs.com @bradleyschacht.com @joshluedeman.com @dbabulldog.bsky.social @neerajny.bsky.social

#MicrosoftFabric Data Agent Example Queries are the KEY to validating agent results. If you are using or looking at Data Agents lets take a look at this, together! Link: youtu.be/v0mD01QP5gY @sqlballs.com @joshluedeman.com @bradleyschacht.com @dbabulldog.bsky.social @neerajny.bsky.social

Fabric RTI 101: Applying Union in Eventstreams blog.greglow.com/2026/04/23/f...

Let's tackle #MicrosoftFabric IQ, we need to start with a tutorial on #Graph. Ontology is built on Graph, understanding Graph will help us use Ontology in the future. Link: youtu.be/N6hkxnuOQ8k @sqlballs.com @joshluedeman.com @bradleyschacht.com @dbabulldog.bsky.social @neerajny.bsky.social

Are you using #Google #BigQuery? Do you want the Gartner Leader in visualizations Power BI? Good news, @dbabulldog.bsky.social wants to help you learn how to Mirror BigQuery to #MicrosoftFabric!! Link: youtu.be/nHHrVDXWLqk @sqlballs.com @bradleyschacht.com @joshluedeman.com @neerajny.bsky.social

What did you do on your day off? I found this amazing bakery, and now I’m napping. (The last one is the box of goodies I took home to the fam.

There’s only one of you in the world, and that’s more than good enough. Be unapologetically yourself.

Last morning at #Fabcon & #SQLcon filming a beautiful sunrise!

Let’s go!! First live stream from the road.

What do you do when your road tripping to Atlanta for #Fabcon & #SQLCon with your two best friends? Answer questions about #MicrosoftFabric ! Link: www.youtube.com/live/fWUAIns... cc @dbabulldog.bsky.social @joshluedeman.com @bradleyschacht.com @talesfromthefield.bsky.social @nerrajny.bsky.social

When can Partitioned Compute help Fabric Dataflow performance? blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2026/03/15/w...

Browncoasts assemble! www.instagram.com/reel/DV6Js56...

#fabcon #roadtrip now with 100% more Dan!! @joshluedeman.com @dbabulldog.bsky.social

#Fabcon #roadtrip @joshluedeman.com @dbabulldog.bsky.social @talesfromthefield.bsky.social @bradleyschacht.com

The only one who could ever reach me / Was the son of a…

Shared: Powering secure private network streaming to Fabric with Eventstream connectors (Preview) ift.tt/XVPk9vQ #WinObsWiKi

We made this place.

The problem is bigger than prompts in GHA. Actions might now be the biggest attack vector for OSS. We just had major repos like Trivy get deleted because of workflows using the deadly pull_request_target event. gbhackers.com/hackerbot-cl...

New blog post: #Azure Data Factory Pipeline Debugging Fails with #BadRequest – The Sequel sqlkover.com/adf-pipeline...

You know the day got to busy when you walk to the kitchen between meetings to get a glass of water and realize you forgot to take all your morning pills…… yikes!

🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨 Priya Sathy, VP Microsoft SQL will be kicking off the first hour of our Unify your Data Roadshow: #Microsoft #SQLServer #Fabric + #AI event in Atlanta, GA March 16, 2026! Link: youtu.be/WkVd1HkKZLs @sqlballs.com @joshluedeman.com @dbabulldog.bsky.social @bradleyschacht.com

Did you know you can Recovery a #MicrosoftFabric Workspace!? @dbabulldog.bsky.social has got you covered! Here's the details, make sure your Tenant Admins have it enabled & set up! Link: youtu.be/LeyNxCiFlvo @sqlballs.com @joshluedeman.com @bradleyschacht.com @neerajny.bsky.social

You can offload Power BI Copilot & Copilot in Fabric Developer experiences, with a capacity under an F64, to a Fabric #Copilot Capacity? Let's look at this, together! Link: youtu.be/k3RRi-xMflw @sqlballs.com @bradleyschacht.com @joshluedeman.com @dbabulldog.bsky.social @neerajny.bsky.social

If you are using #MicrosoftFabric you need to understand how Reserved Instances / Reserved Capacities work! So let's cover a real-world scenario together. Link: youtu.be/fTV35baZFAQ @joshluedeman.com @sqlballs.com @bradleyschacht.com @dbabulldog.bsky.social @neerajny.bsky.social

Something exciting is coming for SQL + AI! A series of challenges kicks off next week that 's the perfect opportunity for you to flex your SQL skill set. You don't need to be an expert; each experience builds on the last. #SQLServer #SQLServer2025 techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserv...

Want to speed up your #MicrosoftFabric #Warehouse? Then let's explore Data Clustering with @dbabulldog.bsky.social ! Link: youtu.be/WG5DSKuFyqw @joshluedeman.com @bradleyschacht.com @neerajny.bsky.social @sqlballs.com

Happy New Year! Let's kick it off with Auditing in #Fabric #SQLDatabase with @sqlballs.com !! How do we turn it on and how do we query the Audit log? We'll look at this together! Link: youtu.be/v_8KKpoDopI cc @dbabulldog.bsky.social @bradleyschacht.com @neerajny.bsky.social @joshluedeman.com

Working on re-organizing my office, I have about half of this cleaned off. Got some new things for Christmas that I can’t wait to show off in the background of videos next year for @talesfromthefield.bsky.social !

Did you know that you could publish #MicrosoftFabric Data Agents directly to #Microsoft365? You could share it with #MicrosoftTeams? If you didn't, this video is for you! Link: youtu.be/yCD8-qAIT2I @sqlballs.com @dbabulldog.bsky.social @joshluedeman.com @bradleyschacht.com @neerajny.bsky.social

Using #AzureSQL? @dbabulldog.bsky.social walks you through the data and dashboards for #DatabaseWatcher! Stores your data & streams live at the millisecond level!! Links: youtu.be/LAFlM8LRLUw @sqlballs.com @bradleyschacht.com @joshluedeman.com @neerajny.bsky.social

Did you miss the big discussion on #MicrosoftFabric #FabricIQ with the PG & many other announcements from #Ignite Link: youtube.com/live/BM1n63l... @bradleyschacht.com @joshluedeman.com @dbabulldog.bsky.social @neerajny.bsky.social @sqlballs.com

The wife @melissapowers.bsky.social dropped a new song with her band SISSER called “Bad” it’s so bad it’s good. Give it a listen! sisser.bandcamp.com/track/bad

Shared: Announcing Staging for Mirroring for Google BigQuery (Preview) ift.tt/qXK3Hwd #WinObsWiKi

So I just learned from calling the tracking company, after my delivery did not happen in the schedule window, that apparently Sam’s Club sends out delivery windows that as it was put to me, “ that do not align with any reality that we are aware of”. But it will be delivered today. So Sam’s..

#sqlhelp Hey #sqlserver peeps! I’ve spent hundreds of hours using Diskspd on Windows; hoping to use it for the first time on Linux today! Any gotchas/rave reviews to share? Thanks! (Working with bursty read tests, up to 10000 mb/s with 64k random reads)

"the delivery of your new TV will be between 1 and 3pm today. " My current status every 5 minutes:

The GUI, Graphical User Interface, for #MicrosoftFabric Data Agents has changed and it all starts with Agent Instructions! Click the link to dive into this deeper! Link: youtu.be/r18-STutAyE @joshluedeman.com @dbabulldog.bsky.social @bradleyschacht.com @sqlballs.com @neerajny.bsky.social

Friendly Workspace names for #MicrosoftFabric?!? Yes, please! It's all in #SQLServer Management Studio 22 & @dbabulldog.bsky.social has got you covered! Link: youtu.be/67olCqdCzME @sqlballs.com @joshluedeman.com @neerajny.bsky.social @bradleyschacht.com @erinstellato.bsky.social #SSMS

Did you know you can use your #GitHub Developer #Copilot license in #SSMS 22?!? Dive into it with a demo on Lock & Blocking on SQL Server & #Fabric SQL Database #FabSQL Link: youtu.be/98EXnKfBabE @joshluedeman.com @sqlballs.com @dbabulldog.bsky.social @bradleyschacht.com @neerajny.bsky.social

#MicrosoftFabric #Python User Data Functions are here, let's use them to log errors for Data #Pipelines &v see if they are faster for code reuse!! Link: youtu.be/9HwtlKicv0A @bradleyschacht.com @sqlballs.com @joshluedeman.com @dbabulldog.bsky.social @neerajny.bsky.social

This is a really weird weather day for Florida. When I woke up to get my daughter off to school this morning at 6 AM it was 71° outside. Now at 10 AM it is 58° outside. The sun is up, and it’s getting colder outside. I’m not saying I don’t enjoy it, just really weird. #Florida

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