It’s been quite an exciting month at Timescale for a number of reasons, but one of the biggest initiatives we’ve tackled is the third annual State of PostgreSQL survey. With approximately 45 questions about the community experience with PostgreSQL, helpful tools, best practices, and more – there are so many great insights that will help … Read more
Community. I believe we’re all created for it. I believe most people thrive when they find it. In fact, for many people, community has been their lifeline over the last year. Truth be told, however, community is hard to build and maintain. When I jumped onto a new career path in September 2020 as a … Read more
Amazon Babelfish promises to help customers seamlessly move from SQL Server to PostgreSQL. I’m not excited about it, but probably not for the reasons you think!
Custom Data Connectors can support multiple kinds of authentication. For most modern web apps, OAuth is the obvious choice and the Power Query SDK, coupled with the authentication examples (here and here), make it easy to setup. Unfortunately, two apps that I have recently created Custom Data Connectors for were partway through an OAuth implementation. … Read more
The more complex a Power BI Custom Data Connector gets, the more cumbersome the main Power Query file becomes. Without the ability to make a true “project” structure and include or directly reference functions from other files at this point, I wanted to find a way to keep things a little more organized. In the … Read more