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Month: March 2022

Attending SQLBits as a virtual participant

Attending SQLBits as a virtual participant

This week has been great for me as a learning opportunity by going to SQLBits for the first time ever. Well…actually not going but logging in from home watching online. So as SQLBits as all good things is petering out/comes to an end time to do a personal summary. Blogging I aimed to to a summary blog post for each day. However eagle eyed readers will notice that I stopped on Thursday which was the first conference day. Reason for…

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Notes from SQLBits Conference Day 1

Notes from SQLBits Conference Day 1

I’ll try to highlight the top takeaways per session from my side. Keynote – Level Up with Azure Data This was an entertaining show by Microsoft’s Bob Ward and Buck Woody . They pretended that Bob has a dream about presenting and could do everything. Great consequence was that they had a lot of great people from the Microsoft Team invited presented including Pedro Lopes, Anna Hoffmann, Patrick Leblanc (Guy in a cube) and much more. Demos were given with…

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SQLBits: Notes from Adam Jorgensen’s PreCon “Thriving as a technical leader”

SQLBits: Notes from Adam Jorgensen’s PreCon “Thriving as a technical leader”

This is part 2 of my series on learning at SQLBits. Today I had the pleasure to learn from Adam Jorgensen what it’s like to be a leader and how you can thrive being one. My personal motivation for this ist that I have been doing work as a BI engineer for over a decade now and am currently evaluating how to move on.# The session was truly worthwile…Adam kept it very interactive and Victoria Holt made sure that the…

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SQLBits: Notes from Brent Ozar’s PreCon “Mastering Parameter Sniffing”

SQLBits: Notes from Brent Ozar’s PreCon “Mastering Parameter Sniffing”

It’s learning time again…with my first time at SQLBits. Sadly it’s just virtual as there is still a corporate travel ban due to Covid, but I had a great first day and learned a ton. My wife just approached me this morning telling me “Hey if you gonna learn all day take this as a chance for your blog and share what you’ve learnt there…but keep it short and simple and don’t write essays”. With the latter part…I have my…

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