I will be attending a college football game that kicks off at 11am.
Stay weird, #ESPN.

#UCF

Yasss! #UCF

Good start for #UCF.

The netting and autofocus don't work well together. Gonna have to experiment with manual focus.
#Photography

I banged my head against the wall for a bit chasing down this #SSRS subscription error today.

On a whim, I deleted the subscription and recreated it. Voila! No more error.
I guess I'd call it a red herring.
#Maddening

*SQL Server Reporting Services

Senior members of Twitter's privacy, security teams resign.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/senior-members-twitters-privacy-security-teams-exit-company/story?id=93065102

According to the ACLU, many of you can still register to vote TODAY (if you haven't already):

🗳️California
🗳️Colorado
🗳️Connecticut
🗳️DC
🗳️Hawaii
🗳️Idaho
🗳️Illinois
🗳️Iowa
🗳️Maine
🗳️Maryland
🗳️Michigan
🗳️Minnesota
🗳️Montana
🗳️Nevada
🗳️New Hampshire
🗳️New Mexico
🗳️Utah
🗳️Vermont
🗳️Virginia
🗳️Washington
🗳️Wisconsin
🗳️Wyoming

Final from New York.
#Celtics

End of the 1st.
#Celtics

Whew! What a close game.
Big exhale. 😀
#UCF

Final from Boston.
#Celtics

I picked an arbitrary database table and exported a million rows to a CSV file and also to a parquet file. It's 234 MB vs 7 MB.

Parquet files are nice!

Bird Site plans to order remaining workers back to office after layoffs.

It's been more than six years and I still don't understand why Microsoft won't give us column names with sp_execute_external_script results.

#rstats

I finally found the answer.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/machine-learning/install/sql-server-machine-learning-services-2019

It took a while, but I made it to the finish line.
The "arrow" package (and all dependencies) has been installed. 😎
#rstats

And down the rabbit hole I go...

#rstats #RStudio

Well now...this looks interesting.

Family of packages for interacting with Azure from R - GitHub

#rstats #Azure
https://github.com/Azure/AzureR

New Big 12 TV deals means #UCF will make more money than FSU, Miami.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/mike-bianchi-commentary/os-sp-ucf-fsu-miami-gators-canes-big-12-mike-bianchi-commentary-20221101-7br2fvddl5eqfprg7m2p5ywjyq-story.html

I've often thought the #PowerBI dialog window for connecting to SQL Server was somewhat confusing.

It's not just me. I had to help an end user that was entering Windows Authentication credentials in the wrong place.