Alex Barbeau
@alexondata.bsky.social
It’s just one packet, how much can it cost?
a woman is sitting at a table in a living room talking to a man .
Alt: a woman is sitting at a table in a living room talking to a man .
media.tenor.com
September 14, 2025 at 4:40 AM
It’s just one packet, how much can it cost?
It’s pretty nice, and you can use PowerShell to call it, but don’t because omg the escape characters become hell on desktop.
September 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
It’s pretty nice, and you can use PowerShell to call it, but don’t because omg the escape characters become hell on desktop.
Or making peace with rephrasing “but what problem does this solve” 1-5x daily for the rest of your career
August 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Or making peace with rephrasing “but what problem does this solve” 1-5x daily for the rest of your career
Love to see announcements on SPN and CLI support! Nerds rule!
March 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Love to see announcements on SPN and CLI support! Nerds rule!
I don’t know if Herbert intended it this way but I think he’s trying to show a plot equivalent to the objective correlative concept for character’s emotions.
February 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I don’t know if Herbert intended it this way but I think he’s trying to show a plot equivalent to the objective correlative concept for character’s emotions.
Yes, but also… some of the book is meant to play with the impacts of seeing the future, but imperfectly. And seeing how different characters act with partial information.
February 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Yes, but also… some of the book is meant to play with the impacts of seeing the future, but imperfectly. And seeing how different characters act with partial information.
The lulz.
I hope the 32-bit build agent for Power BI Desktop gets retired with gusto come July 2025.
I hope the 32-bit build agent for Power BI Desktop gets retired with gusto come July 2025.
February 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The lulz.
I hope the 32-bit build agent for Power BI Desktop gets retired with gusto come July 2025.
I hope the 32-bit build agent for Power BI Desktop gets retired with gusto come July 2025.
Jay we need 32 bit PBID till 2032!!!
February 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Jay we need 32 bit PBID till 2032!!!
There are a crazy amount of protocol drivers and such in there, so guessing some DB’s ODBC/JDBC/etc. got bigger.
February 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There are a crazy amount of protocol drivers and such in there, so guessing some DB’s ODBC/JDBC/etc. got bigger.
Don’t forget Kusto storage for Real Time Intelligence!
February 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Don’t forget Kusto storage for Real Time Intelligence!
The simple version is public, that book has way more details than other sources.
This blog post covers implementation nuances and touches a bit on the internals:
www.sqlbi.com/articles/cos...
This blog post covers implementation nuances and touches a bit on the internals:
www.sqlbi.com/articles/cos...
Costs of Relationships in DAX - SQLBI
The relationships in a data model queried by DAX are a fundamental part of the engine and simplify the query itself. This article examines the cost of relat
www.sqlbi.com
January 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The simple version is public, that book has way more details than other sources.
This blog post covers implementation nuances and touches a bit on the internals:
www.sqlbi.com/articles/cos...
This blog post covers implementation nuances and touches a bit on the internals:
www.sqlbi.com/articles/cos...
Actually I’ll just put them here.
Alberto Ferrari & Marco Russo (2024) Optimizing DAX. SQLBI Corp. Chapter 11-12.
Alberto Ferrari & Marco Russo (2024) Optimizing DAX. SQLBI Corp. Chapter 11-12.
January 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Actually I’ll just put them here.
Alberto Ferrari & Marco Russo (2024) Optimizing DAX. SQLBI Corp. Chapter 11-12.
Alberto Ferrari & Marco Russo (2024) Optimizing DAX. SQLBI Corp. Chapter 11-12.
Sure thing! I’ll DM you some technical book references shortly.
January 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Sure thing! I’ll DM you some technical book references shortly.
Forgot to point out this doesn’t apply for CCI in SQL Server or Synapse, just the read heavy analytics focused implementations of VertiPaq.
January 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Forgot to point out this doesn’t apply for CCI in SQL Server or Synapse, just the read heavy analytics focused implementations of VertiPaq.
Another thing to note is that VertiPaq handles joins through pre-computed hashmaps (called relationships) that are rebuilt anytime a table in the join changes. The hashmap sits in the CPU cache and this avoids regular join perf concerns. Another read-focused design choice.
January 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Another thing to note is that VertiPaq handles joins through pre-computed hashmaps (called relationships) that are rebuilt anytime a table in the join changes. The hashmap sits in the CPU cache and this avoids regular join perf concerns. Another read-focused design choice.
At least it vaguely means something, unlike the advertising world madness of calling adtech “programmatic”some years back.
January 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
At least it vaguely means something, unlike the advertising world madness of calling adtech “programmatic”some years back.
I hate it, yet love it.
January 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I hate it, yet love it.