Alex is a Data Platform MVP who loves DevOps. He’s has been helping data professionals apply DevOps principles to relational…
Installing go-task This tool is great for cross-platform shell scripting as it runs all the commands in the Taskfile.yml using…
Starter Template I saved this as a snippet for vscode to get up and running quickly with something better than…
The Problem When you use a UDF in .NET for Apache Spark, something like this code: class Program { static…
A couple of months ago Docker announced that they would be implementing a 6 month retention policy for unused images…
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping…
I was helping my 16yo write his first college essay the other day. He’s always struggled a bit with writing…
A while back I was chatting with Shannon Lindsay on Twitter. She shares lots of useful Power BI tips there.…
I wrote a post about PoSh output recently, noting that in general we ought to use Write-Output or Write-Verbose for…
For the second T-SQL Tuesday ever — again, hosted by Adam Machanic — we were asked one of three options,…