Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 05-15-2023 The Graduate & the Very BIG Week

MY WILL, MY BUG, MY GRADUATE

Just a little under 18 and one half years ago, William came into my life. There are a lot of words to describe a new baby, but the one surround Will's birth is hard to quantify. Don't get me wrong. Joy, happiness, elation, wonder, awe, all-encompassing-love, all of those words were there.

Holding Will's hand on day 3

Eventually.

Will's birth was the most intense 24 hours, and then week, of my life.

William was my third child, so having one was not new to me, but this experience was. Whereas his brother and sister had cried loudly, been weighed, and handed over in warming blankets to be cuddled with; William was rushed away. He was born into this world with a collapsed lung.

While I've spoken about this, I've never written about it before. There is a lot flooding back to me just looking at the picture on the screen. He was born just before Christmas and I've always been thankful to the nurses, the doctors, and other stall at the Sentra Hampton Roads Hospital until we moved we used to bring them cookies every Christmas Eve, remembering those wonderful people there over night with us.

The Graduate & Family

Let me skip forward in time. William's lung miraculously reinflated. After 5 days the oxygen hood came off, we were able to hold him, and feed him. He came home a bright beautiful bouncing baby boy, and grew so very fast. We have had lots of adventures.

My Bug, my nickname for Will, loves roller coasters and amusement parks. I think he is the only person in the family that loves theme parks as much as I do. For the last 15 years he has been my roller coaster riding buddy.

Last Thursday he graduated from High School. Roller coaster riding buddy indeed. That first hill was a big one. He is off to college this Fall, but it feels like only yesterday I was holding that little hand. One of my favorite quotes comes from the Little Buddhist Handbook, "The trouble IS you BELIEVE you have time". Yes. That is the trouble.

Next up, we will head to college orentationnext month. Before then we will move, because we bought a house. We've all been doing a lot of work on it getting it ready to move in. William is leading the way on the painting front, having painted his room and helping is younger sister with hers. The move is officially underway, not just because of the hours of work, or mounds of things we've already moved. No, the way I know this is I am sore in places I forgot I could get sore.

THE BIG WEEK

We talked about it last week Dear Reader, but a very big week is upon us. Microsoft Build starts today. On Wednesday 5/24 & Thursday 5/25 there will be a massive Digital Event that will be simulcast across the Guy in a Cube, Power BI, and Azure Synapse YouTube channels starting at 9 am PST.

One hour before we will be live on the Tales from the Field YouTube channel. Adam Saxton (Twitter | @awsaxton) of Guy in a Cube (Twitter | @GuyinaCube), Kal Yella & Bradley Schacht (Twitter | @BradleySchacht) from the Azure Synapse PG, and of course Josh Luedeman (Twitter | @JoshLuedeman), Neeraj Jhaveri (Twitter | @Neeraj_Jhaveri), Daniel Taylor (Twitter | @DBABulldog), Andres Padilla (@Nodestreamio), and myself will be live.

Here are the links to the pre-show:

May 24th 2023 - Microsoft Digital Event Pre-Show

May 25th 2023 - Microsoft Digital Event Pre-Show

For more read our pre-show announcement blog, Microsoft Digital Event Pre-Show: Azure FastTrack, Power BI CAT, & Azure Synapse Analytics PG.

MONDAY 5-15-2023

On Monday my friend Daniel Taylor released an AMAZING video. He walked through the process of taking Ola Hallengren's SQL Server Mainteance Solutions and using them with Azure SQL Database using Azure Data Factory.

If you have Azure SQL Databases in your environment Azure SQL Database Maintenance Plans with DYNAMIC Azure Data Factory Pipeline!! It is one of our most viewed videos ever, and Dan is very excited to add on to it!

WEDNESDAY 5-17-2023

On Wednesday I released 5 REASONS TO USE Azure SQL Managed Instance!! This was our first list. I had several different videos I've made and will make on Azure SQL Managed Instance.

I don't feel like enough people are aware of the service and what it can do. If there is an item on the list you want to see a longer video on, let me know we always love the feedback!

TUESDAY 5-16-2023

On Tuesday we had our Azure Data Community Round Table featuring content from the creators in the Community for the Community! We had a great conversation opening the show about Mother's Day weekend and the activities surrounding it for each of us, plus a Happy belated Mother's Day to all the MOM's out there!!!

As always the star of the show is the content, so here is the content by the WONDERFUL creators by order of appearence on the show:

Honorable Mention

Microsoft Digital Event Pre-Show: Azure

FastTrack, Power BI CAT, & Azure Synapse Analytics PG by Bradley Ball, featuring Adam Saxton &

Bradley Schacht & Guy in Cube Twitter @SQLBalls, @BradleySchacht, &

@GuyInACube

Neeraj

Scaling strategies for large scale AzureCognitive Services deployments by RK Iyer

Bradley

Announcing General Availability of Azure Data

Studio extension SQL Database Projects by Steve Jones Twitter @Way0utWest via

@SQLServerCentrl

Andres

Getting started with Azure Machine LearningResponsible AI components by Ruth Yakubu Twitter @ruthieyakubu

Josh

Azure Resource Inventory by Claudio Merola Twitter @ClaudioMerola_

Neeraj

ChatGPT + Python+ Power BI by Gabe Araujo, M.Sc. Twitter @AIGenesis3

Bradley

Script to Decode SQL Server Locking and BlockingWait Resources by Eric Blinn Twitter @mssqltips

Andres

Pandas, Spark, and Polars - When To Use Which? by Martin Karlsoon Twitter @HelloKarlsson

Josh

A Beginner's Guide to Database Reliability

Engineering by Kovid Rathee Twitter @Kovid_R

Neeraj

How Microsoft can help you go passwordless thisWorld Password Day by Alex Weinert Twitter @Alex_T_Weinert

Bradley

T-SQL Tuesday 162 – Execution plans according toChatGPT by Hugo Kornelis Twitter @Hugo_Kornelis

Andres

Getting aGrip on Data and Model Drift with Azure Machine Learning by Natasha Savic & Andreas Kopp

Josh

TDE: Database Backups and High Availability by Matthew McGiffen Twitter @mattMcGiffen

WRAP IT UP

Ok Dear Reader remember today is the kick off of MS Build. If you haven't registered go do it, it takes a few minutes and it get's you free access to the big show.

On Monday we posted USE Azure Managed Identity to Backup Azure SQL Managed Instance to Blob Storage, NOT SAS Tokens!! if you are using Azure SQL Managed Instance you want to go give that one a look, this is the way we should be doing our COPY_ONLY backups.

Today is the Azure Data Community Round Table, followed by our live pre-shows on Wednesday & Thursday. PLUS a very special video drop this Wednesday.

We hope you get to spend some time with us this week and as always Dear Reader, Thank You for stopping by.

Thanks,

Brad

Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 05-15-2023 The Graduate & the Very BIG Week

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