Nico Jacobs

Reached my target at Duolingo 👹

In PowerQuery you can reference a variable just by its name. But you can now also put an @ in front of the name. Is this just syntactic sugar, or does the @ add some extra functionality? #PowerQuery #PowerBI #sqlhelp

SQL Server 2025 Is Out, and Standard Goes Up to 256GB RAM, 32 Cores! Today marks the official birthday of Microsoft SQL Server 2025. Here's where to download the evaluation version. Here are the top things you wanna consider as you talk to your managers, developers, and end users. The feature…

Yeah! Belgium Central is open for business. A new Azure zone at a few kilometers from the office... No more complaining about latency, I guess 😁💪 #Azure #Belgium

New article: The New JSON Index in #SQLServer 2025 www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip... #sqlserver2025 cc @sqlwaldorf.bsky.social it works! And hat tip to @dhma.ch for the suggestion to use JSON_CONTAINS

Hard Rock International is sponsoring the new White House Ballroom... Quite unique location for another Hard Rock Cafe! Would they open a shop as well? 🤔

#Fabcon announcements The Fabric CLI is now open source! Fabric MCP Service is coming. CI/CD for all Fabric items And more coming!

@kimmanis.bsky.social and @kjonge.bsky.social showing off #OneSecurity in Fabric in a very fun and entertaining way: no matter which workload accesses the data (Power BI, SQL, Spark, Excel, etc.) the security definition is respected. #fabconeurope25

We finally have 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿-𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 (𝗨𝗗𝗙) in DAX! Don't make mistakes; this is not a user data function in Fabric. This is a new DAX feature, the most important one in the last five years. Read/watch more: https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/introducing-user-defined-functions-in-dax/

Todays the day for #eightKB @eightkb.online Whats that? It's a free, fun and mind melting online conference covering topics around data internals. eightkb.online #sqlserver #sql #internals #data #azure #mysql #postgresql

One week to go until this year's edition of EightKB! We have amazing in-depth technical sessions on SQL Server internals, delivered by expert speakers! Registration is completely free and available here: - eightkb.online #sql #sqlserver #conferences #sql2025

It's been a long time since I last blogged. But today, I did! Part 1 of a series that will probably be at least four parts, and where we'll be wasting our time to look into the internals of hash tables in #SQLServer. Geek out! sqlserverfast.com/blog/hugo/20...

Semifinal of the bike contest at #techorama! #u2u

At #techorama? Curious what's new in T-SQL? I'll get you up to date. Room 7, 8:30!

When I use the CopyData activity in a #MicrosoftFabric pipeline, it allows for blanks in the column names. But then I try to append to the existing table from the lakehouse explorer, I get the error that blanks are not allowed... weird 🤔

#PowerBI DataMarts are now deprecated. Hope nobody wrote a book about it :) Read more: Unify Datamart with #MicrosoftFabric Data Warehouse! powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/u...

You want to learn the key features of Microsoft #Fabric in a hands-on one day workshop? #Techorama is the place to be! Register soon, because ticket sales is closing soon... techorama.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Power BI April 2025 Feature Summary by Patrick LeBlanc #PowerBI powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/p...

Power BI Mistakes to Avoid – Part 2 by Koen Verbeeck #PowerBI www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip...

Call for Speakers for dataMinds Connect 2025 is open on Sessionize and I've just submitted a session! sessionize.com/dataminds-co...

Happy Birthday, SQL Server!

Now, thanks to a brand-new Fabric SKU Estimator, it's much easier to determine the Fabric power your organization needs. Great work Microsoft! Give it a try and let me know your thoughts. blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/m...

Happy 𝝅-day!

Did you know if you middle click the app preview thumbnail, it will close the window? 👀

Belgian Power BI user group is kicking off its first meeting in Lier.

Power Query often generates performant code, but not always: Read the scenario Chris explains in his blog!

In just two weeks it's #DataMindsSaturday. Looking forward to meet the Belgian SQL family in Mechelen! If you're into AI or approximate search, don't miss my session on the new VECTOR data type in SQL Server and Azure SQL Databases

the Release of SSMS Preview 3 by Erin Stellato #Azure https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sql-server-blog/announcing-the-release-of-ssms-preview-3/ba-p/4369541?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=azureweekly

Bye Bye long list of Microsoft Fabric experiences 👋 Welcome new Microsoft Fabric experience

Microsoft Fabric question: In the past I could upload notebook (.ipynb) files via the Upload menu. But that now only supports uploading .pbix and .rdl files. Is there any other way to upload existing notebooks in a Fabric workspace? #FabricHelp #notebook

The January #PowerBI update is out! powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/p...

Hey, you. Person reading this. You can be anything. You're amazing. Do me a favour, though. Be kind.

Reading the DAX manual in Dutch is less funny (but way more useful) than a few weeks ago. Thanks, #PowerBI team

I'm out

I'll get straight to the point. We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT. Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff. It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵

Book Review – Agile Data Warehouse Design sqlkover.com/book-review-... > best book I've read in years. Wish I've read it sooner.

I am very happy to announce release v1.0 of Fabric Studio! You can now work with Fabric directly from VSCode and manage all your artifacts. It's 100% based on the official Fabric REST APIs! You can get an overview of the features here: blog.gbrueckl.at/2024/12/rele... #fabricstudio #apieverything

🎉 The wait is over! SQLBits 2025 is back at ExCeL London from 18-21 June 2025! 📅 Get ready for 4 days of learning, networking & data expertise with the best in the business. Join THE conference for data pros to grow, connect & share knowledge. We can’t wait to see you! 🙌 #SQLBits2025

Somebody in the Fabric development team surely loves underscores ❤️ In this situation, better than camelCase if you ask my opinion 😉

🔍 Ready for a challenge? You didn’t think we’d announce SQLBits without a little twist, did you? 🧩 Solve the word search and uncover the when and where of SQLBits 2025! 🕵️‍♂️ Are you up for it? On your marks, get set, GO! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Automate your migration to Microsoft Fabric capacities www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... #MicrosoftFabric