Tag Archives: Humor

What’s Your Theme Music?

Posted on November 28, 2025 by way0utwest

A few weeks ago, I was at the Small Data SF 2025 Conference in San Francisco. I attended the inaugural event last year and decided to go back again. It’s a great chance to hear people thinking about data and … Continue reading →

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CosmosDB APIs Inside SQL Server 2024

Posted on April 1, 2024 by way0utwest

CosmosDB has been a great data platform in the Azure cloud that helps companies deal with disparate types of data. The CosmosDB APIs include those for MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, and Gremlin. These wire-level protocols let you work in a way … Continue reading →

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Creating a Speaking Failures Support Group

Posted on July 13, 2023 by way0utwest

Earlier this week the emails went out to speakers who submitted to the PASS Data Community Summit 2023 conference. These were acceptances and rejections, letting people know the results of the volunteer review. I got this one: I had only … Continue reading →

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Executing Notebooks in a Stored Procedure

Posted on April 1, 2022 by way0utwest

Jupyter Notebooks are a popular way of consolidating a number of code batches together and them executing them as separate batches or all together. These are essentially a document with notes and code, all of which are stored together. Databricks … Continue reading →

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