About two weeks ago I had the immense pleasure of speaking in Berlin for the first time. Now, I'm used to regular events like data saturday's and SQL Bits or dataMinds Connect as outliers because they're larger and different events. But speaking at this one is on a whole different level. As you might gather … Continue reading Speaking experiences at Data Moshpit (Berlin, Germany)
Yes, I've been at it again with Microsoft Fabric, and as I'm trying to find the limits of this new cool toy, the limits sometimes get angry with me and throw an error. Most of the time this error is caused by me and I can usually figure out what's happening, but not always. Exit … Continue reading Notebook exit code 137. Cause and solution
Captains log, stardate... No, wrong opening. I reported an issue yesterday with Microsoft Support and during the following call today (they're really quick to set up an initial meeting), the support engineer showed me where I can find a lot of logging information.Suppose you've got a notebook that has been run a few times. The … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric, Notebook logs
I'm a huge fan of the Ola Hallengren maintenance scripts. They have incredible power and, when you've read the documentation, are easy to use. But one thing he can't prepare the scripts for, is different settings for each database on the instance. Allow me to show you how I've fixed that. Setup Suppose I've got … Continue reading Dynamic SQL Maintenance Scripts
Next week (Thursday 4th of august 2022) I've been invited to speak at the Microsoft data platform group Birmingham. This is a very active user group that hosts monthly sessions on the data platform, and this month I'm honoured to talk about monitoring Azure SQL with Zabbix. In this session I'll walk you through monitoring, … Continue reading Speaking at Microsoft Data Platform Group – Birmingham
My first long-read about monitoring your Azure SQL DB with Zabbix. And a little bonus with Linux.
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