A week in Kusto and SQL

Hello there,

Once again Friday has come and what a week in the world of data.

It has been a while since I've send out this newsletter. Summer holidays and personal issues has come in the way of this. But now I'm back and will try to send this out regularly once again.

Kusto Detective Agency - going really wild

This season of the Kusto detective agency is going wild with the story and the catch. We are not finished yet, and you can still come on board.

Be prepared to be challenged and to get your head around text-searches, data manipulation and image recognition in this season.

Personally I'm having a blast at the cases and the story. I've reached the level of "Principal Detective" in this season.

There is a little catch, as the cases are only given to you on specific times and days, so we have to wait for the next case. At this moment my next case is 7 days and some hours away.

SQL Konferenz is coming

The biggest SQL event in Europe is about to go live. It is held in Hanau and are thrillingly 1 day of PreCon with 5 great training options and 1 day of main conference with more than 65 speakers from all around the world.

You can meet experts from Microsoft and other vendors as well and meet'n'greet with fellow enthusiasts around SQL and data.

I'll be there with two sessions - one about the Kusto experience in Fabric and Power BI and a lightning talk about handling the megatrends in data.

You can get a 50 eur discount on your ticket, if you use this discount code: ?passf283

I hope to see you there.

Things I've been reading this week

As it has been a while since I've send out this newsletter, there is also a lot of news to dive into.

I've selected a few in the below reading list.

• Kusto EngineV2 end of Life announcement - The Kusto engine V2 has not end of life and will be replaced with the V3 engine. There is no need to change your current scripts at all - everything will still work as usual.
• ADX Web UI updates - July 2023 - The web UI for ADX has gotten some updates and one of those is the ability to change the rendered chart real-time in stead of rerunning your query with a new render statement.
• New ADX Version Deployment Notification - Every now and then a new and updated version of the engine comes out. Due to the fact that the Kusto engine is a PaaS service you might want to have a notification on this. This blog shows you how to get that.

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Have a great weekend

Brian