John Q. Martin [He | Him | His]

This Sunday I will be walking 18 miles in the Aberdeen kilt walk to raise money for Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance to help keep them flying and providing a vital service to Aberdeenshire. If you can spare anything to sponsor me it would be greatly appreciated. www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

Been having a few chats about tech debt recently, everyone seems to have a different view so I have pulled this survey together. forms.cloud.microsoft/e/a7Bx2U4tXd It would be great to get your thoughts & feedback. My plan is to publish the response data under creative commons for everyone to use.

Here is a little piece about the day of my final Monkey Cage recording - a couple of weeks ago in beautiful #manchester www.bigissue.com/opinion/robi...

Happy #Caturday 😀

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Dog.exe has crashed… had a busy day project managing the splitting of firewood on the farm.

Another addition to the household, little chap turned up starving in the farmyard on Saturday. Can’t be any more than 3 months old and loved his fuss, this makes me think that he was dumped, we are lucky he made it to us. I despise people who dump animals.

Had a hammock full of kittens to contend with in the morning. They are missing my wife who has been away for for a couple of days.

My wife is taking part in a 5K assault course this weekend to raise money for @cancerresearchuk.org it would be great if anyone could add some support for her fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/stephs-...

Had an epic evening watching Napalm Death, Crowbar, Full of Hell, and Brat. Always a stormer when Napalm cover Nazi Punks Fuck Off! 🤘🤘🤘✊

Has to get a tooth removed today, this simple procedure is something that has terrified me since I had a terrible experience as a ten year old. Glad it has sorted the issue but not something that I want to repeat.

Thanks to everyone who came to my session today at #SqlKonferenz. Session materials will be sent out by the event team soon.

It really blows my mind the number of people who will have sensitive calls and leave laptops/bags unattended in airport lounges. 😬

Current Status…

Keeping my hands warm with my #FabricFebruary mittens while taking the dog for a walk 😀

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My brand new LinkedIn Learning course is out today! It's much broader than my previous courses but will give you (imo) a great view into the data management life cycle! www.linkedin.com/learning/dat... #data #azure #training #datamanagement #azure #fabric #sql

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Time to channel my network. My current contract expires at the end of the month. So I am looking for new opportunities. Do you know anyone who can use a very experienced #SQLServer developer, specialized in query tuning? Please reach out! Reposts appreciated. #OpenToWork

Dear men at #AWS #ReInvent The networking events are not for speed dating. I am here to meet people in my industry or area of expertise, not answer questions about my marriage status.

Just binged on seven episodes of Arcane and finished the series. Very impressed, it has to be in my top 5 in combination with series one. 😀

Just sitting down to the first episode of Arcane season two, really enjoyed the first one.

Barry Smart talking about #MicrosoftFabric and #DataMesh at tonight’s Aberdeen Data Platform and Cloud meeting.

Microsoft are doing a promotion where if you study for the DP-600 Microsoft Fabric certification, you can get a free exam voucher for it (worth $140 USD+ depending on your region). It starts in a few days. The full training content is 33+ hours though. community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Community...

Has anyone got a good list of words/terms to mute? I’m looking to try and keep this little world my little tech only space.

Getting in and setup for my first session of the week at #PassDataSummit. If it’s your first time here then come along to the Networking Event up on level 5 to learn how to get the most out of the event.

I have submitted for this and am keeping my fingers crossed. Always enjoy speaking here as it’s a really well run event. Well worth looking at if you’re able to.

Raging right now, reset of my laptop, had an issue adding to AAD, duplicate device name, cleared them out and hit try again button, went through the rest of the process, then discovered that it did not try again and now laptop is FUBAR and only way to get it working is buying a new win 11 license 🤬

Woke up and read that the new government in NZ has decided to roll-back the smokefree legislation. Seriously NZ, has the last 14 years in the UK and MAGA in the US not shown you how shithouse the right wing is these days, they hate everything that is not them or their mates. FFS.

Attending a tech conference in Edinburgh and I have to say that for a free conference it still represents very poor value due to poor organisation, vendors in the expo area who seem disinterested, and vendor centric session content (aside from a fantastic session by Alexia Cambon from Microsoft) /r

Just found out that Arch Enemy and In Flames are co-headlining a tour at the end of next year with Soilwork opening. I’m currently acting like a giddy child, three of my favourite bands in one gig 🤘🤘🤘tickets will be bought.

Turned my desktop PC on for the first time in nearly 18 months, there are some updates to apply apparently 🤔

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SQLBits CFP closes 1st Novemebr Notice that this is TODAY sqlbits.com/speak/ Note: CFP closes at 23:59 UTC #sqlbits

Bean is chilling this evening, not loving the weather in Scotland at the moment so warm blanket it is. #SqlCats

Management tip 101. If a member of your team comes and says they fucked up, don’t ghost them before letting them go…

The irony of having a mental health day session at work, about resilience and managing mental health at work at lunch time so that people can watch it on their break… 🤦‍♂️

And today’s lesson is double checking the names you give variables when shortening the names, when you create a dictionary of primary keys… 🤦‍♂️

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Enjoying a nice little bit of some fine Aquavit this autumnal evening while trying to get my ADF pipeline to work properly. Skål to my Norwegian friends, may you all be content in whatever you find yourself doing this evening. 🙂

#datarelay setup at @tnmoc is taking a while as I keep getting distracted by displays of calculators and slide rules