Hello Dear Reader!! We also have some really, really, BIG NEWS for next week! It also happens that next week is Microsoft Build, make sure to register for free! But that news is coming a little later today.
What's that..? I can't drop a teaser at the begining and then not give you a little more? That's fair.
...OK Dear Reader here's a sneak peak.
We have not one, but TWO one hour live shows that will be on Wednesday May 24th & May 25th. We also have TWO big guests.
Brad Schacht (Twitter |@BradleySchacht) from the Azure Synapse Product Group AND Adam Saxton ( Twitter | @AWSaxton) aka one half of @GuyInACube will be there. But that's really all that I can say until a bit later. Other than, this is going to be fun & this is going to be BIG. Enough about the future let's talk about last week.
This past week was Mother's Day, happy belated Mother's Day to all the Mom's out there! My parent's 50th wedding anniversary was this past year. My siblings and I teamed up to buy them a cruise to Europe and they are out having a wonderful time!! Because of this Mom was not here this Mother's Day but there are plenty of Mom's to be recognized in the family, more than just those that we get to see locally. My niece had her first Mother's Day, congratulations Destiny!! To celebrate we did what has become an annual tradition. I make mimosa's, we take the ladies to the spa, and we all get pedicures.
Let's start with the mimosa recipe because it is a good one:
- 1/3 a champagne flute of Orange Juice
- 1/2 oz Don Julio Blanco tequila
- 1/2 oz Gand Marnier Cognac & Orange Liqueur
- fill remaining flute with good champagne like Veuve Clicquot
The pedicures started as a simple thing. I took my wife and her Mom, my amazing mother-in-law Judith Gonzalez to get a pedicure and manicure. The next year my Mom & youngest Sister came over and I included them. Instead of just sitting there waiting I decided to join them for the pedicure and the tradition began.
The next is that every year I get the kids to help me cook Mother's Day brunch. The main course was by request. Heart shaped chocolate chip pancakes. I don't do anything simple.
In my house bananas are enjoyed by all. So I made a banana's foster's syrup to go with the pancakes. For this recipe you need banana's, butter, brown sugar, good dark rum (we used my Diplamatico), and maple syrup.
You make banana's foster, flambe, then you add in the maple syrup and stir, finally ladling over finished pancakes. Quick tip, the syrup is hot so if you cut fresh unsalted cream butter and put it on the pancake, then pour the syrup, the butter will be perfectly soft when the plate lands on the table.
Pedicures, pancakes, mimosas, all complete I set about fixing a toilet at the new house and installing a bidet. All in all a very productive weekend. Dear Reader, I hope you and your family had a great and Happy Mother's Day. Ok, on to the recap.
MONDAY 05-08-2023
On Monday Andres Padilla (Twitter | @NodeStreamIO) & Neeraj Jhaveri (Twitter | @Neeraj_Jhaveri) presented Computer Vision using Azure ML Studio!!
In this video Andres walk through the steps to connect to Azure machine Learning Studio, Importing the required libraries, downloading the data, all the way through training your model.
WEDNESDAY 05-10-2023
On Wednesday I released No-Code PERFORMANCE GAINS with Intelligent Query Processing in Azure SQL & SQL Server!! I walk through 2 different ways to restore the World Wide Importers database into Azure SQL Database.
Then we review how to provision a Serverless Azure SQL Database and why you want to use Serverless. Using demos from Bob Ward's ( Twitter | @bobwardms) demos from his amazing SQL Server 2022 class that is available for free here!! I then show how self-healing Persisted memory grant feedback works in Azure SQL Database by dropping the performance of a query from over 1 minute to less than 2 seconds!
This is in place for Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server 2022 we just need to have our database compatibility level at 150 or above.
TUESDAY 05-09-2023
On Tuesday it's my FAVORITE half-hour of the week! The Azure Data Community Round Table with Josh Luedeman (Twitter | @JoshLuedeman), Andres Padilla, Neeraj Jhaveri, and myself. We recapped the fun that we had at SQL Saturday Jacksonville.
After a conversation that covered Guardians of the Galaxy 3, The Flash, and Andre's amazing drone demo at SQL Saturday Jax we got to the real star of the show. The content. Here is the content covered on the show in the order of appearance:
Neeraj
•Microsoft Digital Event by Tyler Mays-Childers, Guy in Cube Twitter @sposit & @GuyInACube
Bradley
•Using the New Open Source SQLCMD to Create Containers by Steve Jones Twitter @Way0utWest via @SQLServerCentrl
Andres
•Everything You Want to Know About Onnx by Janakiram MSV Twitter @janakiramm
Josh
•Four Different Ways to Incorporate Azure Synapse and PowerBI by Ginger Grant Twitter @desertislesql
Neeraj
•Build real-time dashboard with Power BI dataset produced by Azure Stream Analytics no-code editor by Xu Jiang Twitter @xujx
Bradley
•Automating Database Maintenance on Azure SQL by Josephine (Branch) Bush Twitter @hellosqlkitty
Andres
•Supercharge Archive Content Discovery with ChatGPT and Azure Video Indexer by Fardau Van Neerden Twitter @thefmister
Josh
•Building, Deploying, and Sharing a Remote Jupyter Book in Azure Data Studio by Steve Hughes Twitter @dataonwheels
Neeraj
•Analytics Vidhya's Top 10 Blogs on Computer Vision in 2022 by Sanjana Rajpal Twitter @AnalyticsVidhya
Bradley
•The Blooming of AI Spring by Patrick LeBlanc & Buck Woody Twitter @PatrickDBA & @BuckWoodyMSFT via @Spotify
Andres
•Microsoft’s New Azure Storage Mover Makes Cloud Migrations Easier by Rabia Noureen Twitter @RabiaNoureen11
Josh
•Monitoring SQL Server on Linux Part 1: Installing sysstat (Surviving Without Perfmon) by Rick Lowe Twitter @dataflowe
WRAP IT UP
A couple of reminders this week. Don't forget Dear Reader we have our Azure Data Community Round Table Tuesday 5/16 at 1 pm EST. Today we have an MS Tech Bits where our very own Daniel Taylor (Twitter | @DBABulldog) walks us through how to use Ola Hallengren's scripts to set up Database Maintenance on Azure SQL Database using Azure Data Factory!
Remember to stay tuned for that big news, and as always Dear Reader Thank You for stopping by.
Thanks,
Brad