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Ex-DBA, now Data Engineer. Other data professionals are available. Eat, snooze, run, code, repeat. Who am I kidding - I neither run nor code.

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Joined June 2010
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10 things you need to AVOID saying at all costs in job interviews: P.S use number 10 as a hack in all of your interviews. // 🧵a thread🧵//
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To put in context multi millionaire Nadhim Zahawi threatening nurses & ambulance paramedics with bringing in soldiers to break their strike, it’s worth remembering his expenses claim which included heating his horses’ stables was more than a nurse on starting pay is asking for.
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Excited to share we have just released a new #Synapse runtime for Apache Spark! You can now use #Spark 3.3.1 and #Delta 2.1.1 in preview! #SynapseAnalytics learn.microsoft.com/en-us/az…

Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.3 - Azure Synapse Analytics

New runtime is GA and ready for production workloads. Spark 3.3.1, Python 3.10, Delta Lake 2.2.

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Create an #AzureCosmosDB for #PostgreSQL cluster in the #Azure portal 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃 Try the quickstart now: learn.microsoft.com/azure/co…
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Life hack: give yourself 8 to 12 hours of alone time in the morning to mentally prepare for the day.
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Dear #PowerShell friends, we need your help! Tell us what you would like to read inside your #PSConfEU 2023 mug? For PSConfEU 2022, it was [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()], what should we have next?
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Our next full conference is 28 January 2023. CfS will open soon. #azuresynapse @Azure_Synapse #AzureDataCommunity #DataToboggan
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Thank you to the speakers and attending our Alpine Coaster EMEA Edition today. Join us later for the AMER Edition 5:00 PM GMT meetup.com/data-toboggan/eve… #azuresynapse @Azure_Synapse #AzureDataCommunity #DataToboggan #azure
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Thank you to the speakers and attending our Alpine Coaster APAC Edition today. Join us later for the EMEA edition at 12:30 PM GMT meetup.com/data-toboggan/eve… #azuresynapse @Azure_Synapse #AzureDataCommunity #DataToboggan
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Maybe some of your members would like our mini conference on Friday #DataPlatformSummit
Data Toboggan@datatoboggan22 Nov 2022
Our next mini-conference is this Friday 25th November. We've got 3 groups of lightning sessions throughout the day (each about an hour). 7:30AM GMT tinyurl.com/ac22apac, 12:30PM GMT tinyurl.com/ac22emea, and 5:00PM tinyurl.com/ac22amer @Azure_Synapse #AzureSynapse
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An amazing mini conference is on Friday #MVPBuzz With #passdatacommuitysummit over and #sqlbits 5 months away something to indulge in on Friday. #Data #Analytics @Azure_Synapse #azuresynapse
Data Toboggan@datatoboggan22 Nov 2022
Our next mini-conference is this Friday 25th November. We've got 3 groups of lightning sessions throughout the day (each about an hour). 7:30AM GMT tinyurl.com/ac22apac, 12:30PM GMT tinyurl.com/ac22emea, and 5:00PM tinyurl.com/ac22amer @Azure_Synapse #AzureSynapse
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The Microsoft Purview Information Protection Ninja Training is here! - Microsoft Community Hub techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
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Hey @Hugo_Kornelis - just to let you know. There are a lot of people thinking of you here! #teamhugo
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Spark connection, break the ice, and succeed as a team in your next Microsoft Teams meeting. Add the Games for Work app and start playing Microsoft Solitaire, Minesweeper, Wordament, or IceBreakers today: msft.it/6019dvlo3
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PSA: our #Accessibility team at @Microsoft’s NOT “hardcore culture” We try new experiments each quarter to preserve #MentalHealth + keep l ones we like We don’t do long hours, late nights, etc b/c burning you out for short-term gain is irresponsible 🤷🏽‍♀️ careers.microsoft.com/us/en/… – at Seattle, WA
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Replying to @CaseyNewton
Let The Daily Show explain how free speech works under Elon.🤣
The Daily Show
@TheDailyShow14 Nov 2022
A message from Twitter's Head of Communications

Twitter's Head of Communications Speaks Out

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“Let’s talk about Stonehenge vs legacy code. No ones knows who built it. No ones knows where it came from. No ones why it was built. …and it works twice a year.” We are rolling laughing at this @KevlinHenney talk on Code Refactoring at #BuildStuffConf 😹
Kevlin standing on the Build Stuff stage pointing to a slide with a photo of Stonehenge on it with an overlay that says Refactoring Is Not Just Clickbait

ALT Kevlin standing on the Build Stuff stage pointing to a slide with a photo of Stonehenge on it with an overlay that says Refactoring Is Not Just Clickbait

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We are looking for a few more sessions for Alpine Coaster 25 November 2022 Call for Speakers. Short session format, between 7 and 10 minutes long, for our mini conference #azuresynapse @Azure_Synapse #AzureDataCommunity sessionize.com/data-toboggan…
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Submit a sessions for Alpine Coaster Friday 25 November 7-10 minutes long of your real-world tales of Azure Synapse Analytics. Deployments, proof-of-concepts, solved issues ! sessionize.com/data-toboggan… #azuresynapse @Azure_Synapse #AzureDataCommunity #DataToboggan
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