Tom

Tom

Tom is a Microsoft 365 developer & architect. Since 2015 he has been annually awarded Microsoft MVP. He has been blogging at https://thoughtstuff.co.uk for over a decade. He lives in Norfolk in the UK, travelling internationally to speak about Microsoft 365 development, Microsoft Teams, Graph, Copilot, Bots and AI.

What do you love? from Google

Google has a new data mashup project on the go. You can see it for yourself at:  The results are an amalgamation of many of Google’s different services, such as Trends, YouTube, Maps etc.

Glimpse – like Firebug on the Server-Side!

Glimpse is a NuGet package that gives you Firebug-like functionality, on the server-side. It makes things a lot easier when you’re debugging. To add it, first bring up the Package Manager Console window, if you don’t see it you can…

SSMS – Is I in The Cloud?!

I was reviewing some processes that should have terminated, but hadn’t, prior to performing a Restore, when I came across this snippet of SQL. It looks like a fairly nasty hack to bring SQL Server Management Studio into 2011 and…

Give your SQL Strings Names!

This is such a useful debugging practice I had to share it. How often have you come to debug a problem and had to resort to SQL Tracing to pinpoint the problem, or had to use SQL’s Activity Monitor to…

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