It had been so long since we all gathered that we ate taco's, made some movie plans, watched hockey, and just generally enjoyed one another's company. The food theme was tacos, my compliments to the many chef's. Mere descriptions alone will not do it justice but there was homemade taco meat, refried beans, melted cheese, homemade rice & black beans, fresh guacamole, and some of the best chocolate chip cookies ever.
The following day was Easter. My parents joined Sue, the kiddos, and myself. Even though the kids are 19, 18, & 13 years old respectively. Yet, they are never too old for an Easter basket! When I was over in Wales & London for SQLBits I love to get candy for Easter. There are so many amazing options to choose from and the fact that it is just slightly different, but oh so delicious, adds an element of wonder and amazement.
Some of my favorite Dad things to do are when we prepare for Christmas or Easter. I also love some of the little things. When the kids were small I loved making lunches. Making sure to add cinnamon apple sauce, snack cakes, some type of gummi snacks, making sure they each had their own individualized sandwiches. Serenity's favorite was a peanut butter and sliced bananawith no crust, I prefer the crust on mine. All of those small things, that they are too big for now.
Lots of wonderful happy memories Dear Reader, the most important thing is to be present in the moment and love the people around you. Alright, enough reminiscing. Grab a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup shaped like an Easter Egg because it's time to bounce over to the re-cap!
WEDNESDAY 04-05-2023
On Wednesday we released our latests MS Tech Bits diving into the structures of Heaps and Clustered Indexes. Why do we have the VS. on the slide? The default table type in Oracle is a Heap, the default table type in SQL Server is a Clustered Index. For years therese were the two most dominiant relational database systems and having different default recommendations creates confusions.
It's importiant to remember what we've learned from Ted Lasso. "All people are different people", "Be a goldfish", also that tip about the peanut butter was pretty good and I would recommend the White Chocolatey Wonderful. I digress, all databases are different databases. Some may be based off of ACID some are not, but indexing structures in SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle are all things you need to understand.
It affect performance and every day functionality. So we dive into the conceptual structures in this video, demos are coming this week!
TUESDAY 04-04-2023
On Tuesday we had our Azure Data Community Round Table! The wonderful Daniel Taylor (Twitter | @DBABullDog) was in for Neeraj Jhaveri (Twitter | @Neeraj_Jhaveri), Josh Luedeman (Twitter | @JoshLuedeman), Andres Padillia (Twitter | @nodestreamio), and myself had a great day talking about the AMAZING content created by the Azure Data Community.
No time to waste, here is that wonderful content in the order it was covered on the show:
Dan
• DBA in training: SQL Server high availability options by Pamela Mooney Twitter @PamelaMooney
Bradley
• T-SQL Tuesday #160: Round-Up by Damien Jones Twitter @amazonwebshark
Andres
• Edge AI: From Model Development to Deployment by Raj Prasanna Ponnuraj
Josh
• Faster training and inference using the Azure Container for PyTorch in Azure ML by Bea Stollnitz Twitter @beastollnitz
Dan
• [How-To] SSRS migration by Garry Bargsley Twitter @gbargsley
Bradley
• The Kingdom of AdventureWorks Calls for Aid - Asad Khan, Bob Ward, Sanjay Mishra & Buck Woody by SQLBits, Asad Khan, Bob Ward, Sanjay Mishra & Buck Woody Twitter @SQLBits, @Bob_Ward, @BuckWoodyMSFT, @AzureSQL
Andres
• Create AI tracking Drone using DJI Tello by Murtadha Bazli Tukimat Twitter @RobotAndCode
Josh
• Single Server to Flexible Server Migration tool is GA in Azure Database for PostgreSQL by Shriram Muthukrishnan Twitter @azureDBpostgres
Dan
• How To Learn Microsoft Azure in 2022 by Thomas Maurer Twitter @ThomasMaurer
Bradley
• Power BI datasets CI/CD (the easy-ish way) by Stephanie Bruno Twitter @StephTBruno
Andres
• Amazing Invention-This Drone will change everything by Mark Rober Twitter @MarkRober
Josh
• GitHub Codespaces for Students and Educators by Nehemiah Emmanuel Twitter @devgenix
WRAP IT UP.... AND SQL SATURDAY JACKSONVILLE!!!
This week we have the Community Round Table on Tuesday at 1 pm EST. Join us to see the Azure Data Community blogs & videos we will be featuring.
On Wednesday we will have our MS Tech Bits, this will be the Demos that accompanied last weeks conceptual ideas about indexes!
SQL Saturday Jacksonville is just under 1 month away!! All of the Tales from the Field crew will be at the event. Make sure to come to Daniel, Neeraj, & my pre-con A Full Day of DBA Fundamentals. The full event schedule is LIVE!!
This will be a fun week, we hope you have a great one! And as always Dear Reader, Thank you for stopping by.
Thanks,
Brad
