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data TGIF CFS 2025: Call for Speakers Hi everyone!🎤 Call for Speakers: Data TGIF 2025 (https://www.meetup.com/data-tgif) Ready to kick off your weekend with meaningful conversations, fres...

🎤 Want to speak at Data TGIF 2025? Just drop your name here: sessionize.com/data-tgif-cf... Your topic is TBD. If you'd like mentorship, mention it in the description. FIFO applies: the earlier you submit, the sooner you'll be contacted. #DataTGIF #CallForSpeakers #DEI #DataCommunity

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Cool Runnings 2025 Schedule - Data Toboggan We’re pleased to announce the Cool Runnings 2025 full schedule! Register here for free now for the event on Saturday July 12th.

I'm speaking at @datatoboggan today! Join me in my session about "Microsoft Fabrics Notebook Deep Dive" and why I love notebooks! It is more than a code file; Its a powerful dev tool! Ill demo tricks to make your dev exp more intuitive. www.datatoboggan.co.uk/cool-running... #datatoboggan

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Happy birthday to my friend @dbanuggets.bsky.social ! #sqlfamily

I'd like to highlight one takeaway: If you submit a session for speaking within 15 mins and you generate the text with ChatGPT containing more than 1300 words, nobody is going to believe you'll speak within 15 mins.

We are currently hard at work to see 309 session submissions by 190 speakers in total. We have received many, many great sessions and are going to publish the lineup soon. databash.live
#databash2025 #conference #online #live #youtube

Happy birthday @bweissman.bsky.social ! #sqlfamily

Happy Pride Month, Everyone!

Announcing the release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21.2.5 | Microsoft Community Hub In this latest release, we’re excited to announce the return of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) capabilities in Preview, Maintenance Plans (Preview),...

🎉 Just dropped: SSMS 21.2.5 is here, and we've got some big updates to share!

We're bringing back SSIS (Preview), Maintenance Plans (Preview), and making the Modern connection dialog even better thanks to your feedback.

Blog: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserv...

Ok, the cat is out of the box!

After months of writing the Fundamentals of Microsoft Book together with @bweissman.bsky.social for @oreilly.bsky.social, we are ready to reveal the book's X-factor: we had the honor and privilege of having the one and only @kimmanis.bsky.social write a foreword.

SQL Server 2025 by Javier Villegas, Fri, Jun 20, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup SQL Server 2025 is here — and it’s packed with powerful enhancements designed to meet the needs of modern data platforms. In this session, we’ll explore the most exciting n

SQL Server 2025 by Microsoft MVP Javier Villegas at data TGIF is going to start in like 15 mins! Join our meetup online and for free here! www.meetup.com/data-tgif/ev... #Meetup #sqlserver2025 #sqlserver #sqlfamily

PowerShell in CI/CD Pipelines: A Practical Tour of Deployment Options by Blake Cherry, Danny Stutz Explore the diverse ways to deploy PowerShell scripts using DevOps continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines! This session will investigate the options for running PowerShell in CI/CD processes. We'll start by discussing when and why you might want to incorporate PowerShell into your CI/CD pipelines, highlighting the benefits of automation, consistency, and efficiency in deployment workflows. Next, we'll delve into various methods of deploying PowerShell within pipelines, including: • Locally on Build Agents: Running scripts directly on the pipeline's host machine. • Azure PowerShell DevOps Tasks: Utilizing built-in tasks for seamless integration with Azure services. • Containers and Custom Dockerfiles: Exploring available PowerShell container images, considerations for modules requiring authentication, and best practices for creating custom Dockerfiles tailored to your needs. We'll also compare the capabilities of different CI/CD platforms for running PowerShell, such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab. We'll discuss: • Platform Differences: How each platform handles PowerShell execution via pipeline. • Selection Criteria: Factors influencing the choice of platform for your specific use case. • Advantages and Limitations: Understanding the strengths of each platform in the context of PowerShell deployment. Additionally, we'll explore how PowerShell can be integrated with other DevOps tools like Terraform and Ansible, discussing key considerations and best practices for these scenarios. By the end of this session, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of the options available for deploying PowerShell via pipelines and how to choose the best approach for your projects. PowerShell Summit videos are recorded by our friends at Confreaks. Our recordings are made in a way that minimizes overhead for our speakers and interruptions to our live audience. These recordings are meant to preserve the presentations' information for posterity, and are not intended to be a substitute for attending the Summit in person. These recordings are not intended as professional video training products. We hope you find these videos useful. Follow Confreaks 👇 https://confreaks.com https://confreaks.bsky.social https://x.com/confreaks

The PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2025 videos are now live on YouTube!

Catch up on all the sessions you missed or rewatch your favorites. Amazing content from the community's top experts.

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#PowerShell #DevOps #PSHSummit

We had a natural disaster in #Switzerland this week. A glazier in Valais collapsed, and avalanches from it buried around 400 houses. Although they evacuated the area prior the incident, one person went missing. The disaster is still ongoing, as the river that runs through the valley got blocked.

A sticker from ohmygollyembroidery on Etsy that says Trans Lives Are More Important Than Harry Potter.

@lufthansa.bsky.social I've been trying to get a receipt with the expense amounts for my flights from Zurich and Seattle via Frankfurt and back. However, so far you gave me either a receipt without any expense numbers or only the expenses to the flight to Frankfurt. Who do I need to contact?

Apparently, even the federal institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) got a such letter, according to the swiss media. Apparently, they decided not to answer it.

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Happy Birthday, @tracyboggiano.com ! Hope you've had a great day! #sqlfamily

o3 and o4-mini: Unlock enterprise agent workflows with next-level reasoning AI with Azure AI Foundry and GitHub by Steve Sweetman azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/o...

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Being kind is free.
The benefit is priceless.
Be known for being kind.
Be recognised for being kind,
Be remembered for being kind.

#bekind

I love the #Netherlands! Thanks to a friend, I've visited the #Vliegbasis #Soesterberg, an amazing place to visit at #sunset

The Power BI Glow-Up: Watch a Report Transformation Live by Lakshmi Ponnurasan, Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup Do your Power BI reports feel functional but lack visual appeal? It’s time for a glow-up! Great data storytelling isn’t just about numbers—it’s about how you present them.

Today is data TGIF! Join us for free, an online meetup with Lakshmi Ponnurasan talking about The Power BI Glow-Up: Watch a Report Transformation Live www.meetup.com/data-tgif/ev...

Updated checklist for the DP-700 exam for the new Microsoft Fabric Data… | Kevin Chant Since I have more people reaching out to me asking me about how to prepare for the DP-700 exam, even during the Easter period, I thought I would share these two posts again. Updated checklist for the...

Thought better share some DP-700 exam links again since been asked about it over the Easter period. #DP700 #MicrosoftFabric #MicrosoftLearn

www.linkedin.com/posts/kevin-...

European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025: Call for Speakers Join us at the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Vienna this September! We are thrilled to invite you to the 2nd European Microsoft F...

Call for Speakers for European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 is open on Sessionize (just few days left - hurry!) and I've just submitted a session! sessionize.com/european-mic...

The Power BI Glow-Up: Watch a Report Transformation Live by Lakshmi Ponnurasan, Fri, Apr 18, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup Do your Power BI reports feel functional but lack visual appeal? It’s time for a glow-up! Great data storytelling isn’t just about numbers—it’s about how you present them.

The Power BI Glow-Up: Watch a Report Transformation Live by Lakshmi Ponnurasan www.meetup.com/data-tgif/ev... #Meetup via @Meetup - Friday next week at 17:00 Central European Time

From the PowerBI community on Reddit: Power BI Freelancing: Frequently Asked Questions Explore this post and more from the PowerBI community

I've created a #PowerBI freelancing FAQ on Reddit.
www.reddit.com/r/PowerBI/co...

To everyone who is celebrating it, I wish Eid Mubarak!

Deploying Azure SQL VMs with PowerShell Azure Bastion + dbatools What happened? About a year ago, my original script from my blog post “Deploy Azure Sql Server Vm With PoSh” (blog, substack) from 2021 broke due to a change in the underlying model. In last August, M...

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Deploying Azure SQL VMs with PowerShell Azure Bastion + dbatools www.linkedin.com/pulse/deploy... via LinkedIn, also available on kayondata.com and my substack.

Quite an essay on the basis of cancer entitled "The End of the Genetic Paradigm of Cancer" @plosbiology.org arguing against the primacy of somatic mutations (traditional model) and cells, invoking gene regulatory networks and tissue
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Getting ready to fly to Seattle for #mvpSummit2025. Arrived at the airport Zurich at the #tooEarly time of 5 am, at least for my inner night owl of mine