8 minutes with ice and a ribbon and I am a free man again!!

That time you are buying jewellery for an upcoming Heavy Metal festival in Sacramento ( https://t.co/2kXDBMJ0q4 ) And your kids find a ring that mentions #MVPBuzz You put it on and immediately realise you have just bought it as it ain’t coming off 🤣 Now watching YouTube….

The punishment for being a naughty teenager is to write marketing collateral for dad…. The stance gives it away how much my eldest daughter is loving it. However we do get to spend 2 hours 1:1 together & the atmosphere was actually jovial.Crime/time can still involve laughter

The best way to design software should always starts with non-software things.

Oh yeah #BigQuery stores stuff in UTC… The database hasn’t had 12 hours of issues 🤦🤦🤦🤦 Sometimes living in the future has it’s issues. #HamishIssues

I found a raspberry pi I had built when my kids were little and it had Kodi on it. It’s now going to be my #ubuntu server. These days I do #DevOps in #Azure and feels good to do something on my premises 😊 First step is #python for automation stuff n things

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So I need a new job, if anyone is hiring..

I am looking forward to speaking at the Microsoft Fabric Global Online Conference on September 10-11. I am bringing #DevOps processes to #MicrosoftFabric Request your FREE ticket here:  https://t.co/BCkv4Dec6g #MicrosoftFabricGlobalOnlineConference #MicrosoftFabric #Fabric

In our recent webinar ‘Harnessing the Power of Test Data Management: Strategies for Success’, Redgate’s @way0utwest was joined by @TheHybridDBA and Daniel Watkins to talk all things TDM. Read our latest blog post learn 10 key tips and takeaways. https://t.co/go4ULME4lp

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Here’s the thing folks. I’ve been coding 32 years. When something like this happens it’s an organizational failure. Yes, some human wrote a bad line. Someone can “git blame” and point to a human and it’s awful. But it’s the testing, the Cl/CD, the A/B testing, the metered

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Seems legit.

Getting ready to present (remotely) to the Christchurch User Group. At a way too early hour. Someone should fix those darn time zones.

Tonight the @ChristchurchSQL User Groupd had the pleasure of @Hugo_Kornelis presenting to us on Execution Plans in #sqlserver - a very important thing even in these days of #fabric or #MicrosoftFabric

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Just did a session at #AnalyticsFriday on #git and #Fabric - focusing on the git part. Did commandline and bash stuff and in VS Code and had a person mention that they didn’t understand source control before and now did. And loved the commandline examples #dayMade

We are at an adult "pool party" and my husband put on his bathing suit before we came here and I tried to explain to him that no one was actually going to be swimming. Anyway, he is now in the pool by himself while everyone else is standing around the edges sipping cocktails.

I have officially made it…. Having a road cone for my car park at local university. Now I gotta deliver a lecture worthy of such a thing.