I know I have lost this argument, but I still prefer calling my Date Calculation Groups "Date Intelligence" instead of "Time Intelligence".

Irish Fabric Masterclass lunchtime session 12 today on ."Inside the Delta Format" on teams.

Dancing Alien spotted at #SqlBits

and for tonight's fun I have an Azure function App which has suddenly stopped working after 2-3 years due to TLS issues. It picks the end of the financial month to stop working. Wish me luck as I open the source code with emails incoming asking for ETA.

Just when I thought Microsoft couldnt have a worst namesd product, I start using a new product called "Windows App". This is the lowest point in lazy naming in history .(Well since Microsoft Bob!).

Sigh, a #Fabric SQLDB has disabled itself after capacity restart and no way to restart it without support ticket ;-(. Many hours later looks like support dont have a process to restart yet, so I'm going to have to hit panic button and restore. Add this to the GUI/API Microsoft !!.

Excited to have Abhinav Jayanty sharing insights on "Real Time Intelligence in Fabric" at the SQL Ireland Fabric Masterclass virtual event tomorrow. Join us to stay updated on the latest developments in RTI in Fabric! Register here: .

Anyone good to present on "whats New in SQL 2025" for the Dublin SQL User Group ?. Msg me if interested !.

I feel dirty. In the era of AI and cloud native Analytics I am using ChatGPT to generate VBA macros.

While the concept of "WorkLoads" in #Fabric is a good idea, naming it Workloads and placing it next to Workspaces is a disaster. They are just too similar. Why not just call it "Marketplace" like every other product does.

Good news for those using VS Data compare and looking at #Fabric. It now works with the Fabric SQLDB thanks to a change to allow public access to master that was blocking many tools working. I'd like to think it was our moaning that helped get that fixed ;-).

Nooo, the dreaded email on cert renewal ;-(.

Do Many folks do semantic model development directly against the XMLA end point in say tabular editor ?. So far I have been just directly uploading PBIX, but was wondering what would drive the change. Maybe size of model.

Top licensing idea for Microsoft in #Fabric. if a customer is migrating from SQL Server on-premise to the #Fabric and has paid a fortune in EE and SA then they should get some discount as an incentive. As it stands it can be a blocker.

Was discussing naming conventions in Fabric today. I have to say, I am not a fan of adding a tonne of prefixes like PL_ for pipelines. Smacks of adding "tbl" in front of Tables in SQL. Much prefer the Powershell standard of Verb-Noun with approved Verbs.

One of the worst product names by #Microsoft ever. The client for Intune. They could have called it "Intune Client" or "Microsoft Device Compliance" or "Intune Manager". But no, its called "Company Portal" very descriptive folks. My next app I will call "WebSite"

Ok, being finicky her, the rename feature in manage shortcuts only works if you tab out of the field after renaming. Not cool.

When you create a table shortcut in #Fabric there is no rename option. But if you click manage shortcut it allows you to rename. Looks like a UX weirdness.

Join us for the 5th SQL Ireland Fabric Masterclass series this Friday at 12pm Irish Time on Teams. Dive into Fabric Security and Governance with @Kjonge Principal Program Manager on the Fabric Team. Register and Find out more on the following link:.

Really annoying how Teams defaults to Edge and ignores windows defaults. Sure, you can go deep ionto Team settings and set back to Default Browser, but I thought we had all rulings in EU on that type of messing.