Adam Saxton

Christ Follower, Principal PM @Microsoft working on #MicrosoftFabric including #PowerBI. I also go by @GuyInACube

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

@JacobsonData yes! has sparked a few discussions of curiosity :)

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

I picked up P52 and i'll pick up P1 also. Really hoping the 3rd one they will drop will be P75. The outline looks like it will be. These are really great!

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

Recently I announced a partnership with an organization that helped me turn my manuscript facsimiles into museum-quality replicas. I went live with this announcement launching a run of Papyrus 52 fragments that you could own. Today I am excited to reveal that you can now go to https://t.co/TtySqHtLEV and get your very own reproduction facsimile of the 3rd century Papyrus 1 (P.Oxy. 2) -- the very first manuscript discovered in January 1897 by Grenfell and Hunt in the now famous manuscript cache of Oxyrhynhcus, Egypt.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

So these things are back in the news cycle, so let me point you back to my thread on'em 👇

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

@WesleyLHuff it depends? 🤔 I think it would look good on you though. DO IT! haha

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

@WesleyLHuff Loving these! Really hoping the 3rd one is P75 :)

[Guy In A Cube @GuyInACube]

People have been knocking down the door for the music during the #FabCon and #SQLCon... Wait no further!

More tracks dropping next week!

https://t.co/h6hj688zI1

#MicrosoftFabric #PowerBI #SQL #SQLServer

[Sysinternals @Sysinternals]

📤We've updated our Linux tools support, and we're releasing Autoruns, ProcDump, ZoomIt, DebugView, NotMyFault, ProcExp, and Procmon with improvements.
Get the tools at https://t.co/zlch58GEpK.

See what's new on the Sysinternals Blog: https://t.co/w53poPXiyH

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

So this whole Noah’s Ark discovery… yah it’s not legit. If we could deal with reality for just a moment and suspend what a lot of people *want* to be true rather than what is true — pretty much everything about the facts coming out of this story are embroiled in sensationalism and non-credible archeology.

I believe there was a Noah and an Ark. But the formation in the Anatolian Mountains is almost certainly not the remains of that.

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

YSSY (SYD) 🛫 KLAX 🛬 KIAH. Had a good trip to Australia. Work items, community connections and a little sight seeing. Figuring out what day it was was a struggle though 😂

Ready for time travel though. Will depart at 11:40am ish Saturday morning and will land in LA at 8:45am Saturday morning. -3 hour flight 😁 (I wish)

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

The pseudepigraphal literature, including 1st Enoch (typically what we refer to as “the Book of Enoch” — there are 3 but the 1st on is the famous one), operated within a fundamentally different literary framework than modern historical narrative. 1st Enoch is a pseudepigraphal, apocalyptic collection of narratives and visions ascribed to Enoch. This was a genre that deliberately attributed writings to ancient figures to claim authority rather than to deceive readers about authorship.

Understanding the genre’s intention requires recognizing its theological purpose. As a collection, 1 Enoch offers a glimpse of what was likely a common worldview during the later 2nd Temple period (1st Enoch almost certainly doesn’t predate this time), which identified the world as an evil and unjust place in which the Jewish people awaited the redemption of God in their eschatological world.

The primary message was the soon-coming divine retribution of enemies and the judgment and eradication of evil that permeated the cosmos, with the author’s truth and authority relying on his heavenly journeys during which God gave him divine revelation of the coming redemption of the righteous.

Rather than presenting factual history, pseudepigraphal works employed symbolic and visionary language to convey theological truths about divine judgment and redemption. Topics like angels, demons, the spiritual realm, and the coming Messiah are all being fleshed out by this type of work.

1st Enoch offers an embellished textual tradition of Gen.6, and the pseudepigraphal accounts parallel the Septuagintal tradition, reflecting the interpretative biases of the period. This interpretative expansion, albeit not literal reporting, was the genre’s defining characteristic.

The New Testament’s engagement with 1 Enoch further illustrates this point: Jude draws from the pseudepigraphal book of 1 Enoch, with Jude 14-16 detailing a “prophecy” made by Enoch regarding judgment on sinners and the ungodly, drawing on 1 Enoch 9:1, Jude cites Enoch not as historical documentation but as authoritative theological witness to eschatological judgment. The pseudepigraphal genre was never intended as literal history; it was visionary theology dressed in ancient authority.

The question remains, if we take Enoch seriously as actual history then why not the myriads of other pieces of ancient Jewish a Pseudopigrapha, a vast literary catalogue: the Apocalypse of Abraham, Apocalypse of Adam, Apocalypse of Daniel, Apocalypse of Elijah, Apocalypse of Zephaniah, and multiple versions of Baruch (2, 3, and 4 Baruch) and Ezra texts (including the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra, Questions of Ezra, Revelation of Ezra, and Vision of Ezra)? The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs represent a major collection, along with individual testaments attributed to Moses, Job, Solomon, Adam, and the Three Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), why not toss them in as well? All the same genre and vein that Enoch finds itself in.

The collection extends to works attributed to David (More Psalms of David), Jeremiah, Isaiah (including the Vision of Isaiah), Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Zechariah, and multiple works attributed to Solomon, including the Psalms of Solomon and Testament of Solomon. The Sibylline Oracles, Eldad and Modad, and the Book of Jubilees also claim ancient authorship. Some of these documents in their earliest iterations are as early as the 3rd century BC (through others the 4th or 5th centuries AD).

Sure, read 1st Enoch. But don’t confuse it for something it isn’t.

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

@benrebooted Thanks Ben!

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

KIAH 🛫 KLAX 🛬 YSSY (SYD). My first trip ever to Australia. Short work trip where I'm in and out but still looking forward to it! I'm also very thankful for the opportunities that have been provided time 🙏

Trying to prepare myself for about 24 hours of travel. Longest trip I've ever taken. Next longest was Uruguay which was about 17.5 hours.

[The Microsoft Fabric & SQL Community Conferences @FABConSQLCon]

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[The Microsoft Fabric & SQL Community Conferences @FABConSQLCon]

That keynote is still on our minds. 🚀

Arun Ulag, Amir Netz, and Shireesh Thota kicked off the conference with a powerful vision that carried through every session and conversation.

#FABCONSQLCON26

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

KSEA 🛬 KIAH. Flying home after a great week at the office and got to meet up with some Microsoft MVPs also.

The last two weeks were really great for me. Amazing experiences and great conversations setting up the future. I'm ready and excited for the future!

[Azure SQL @AzureSQL]

SSMS 22 is here! Just a year after the SSMS 21 preview, the team launched the GA version of SSMS 22. Discover what's new, why it was such a busy year, and what's next for SSMS on Data Exposed with @AnalyticAnna!

Watch 📷: https://t.co/5kwTBlFI44 #AzureSQL

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

Was a lot of hard work, but an amazing event! The #FabCon / #SQLCon Keynote is now on the YouTubes!

#MicrosoftFabric #PowerBI #SQL #SQLFamily #AzureSQL #SQLServer

[Arun Ulag @arunulag]

From databases to semantics to AI agents, this session covers how #MicrosoftFabric and #PowerBI are evolving to support AI at scale. Full keynote here: https://t.co/K4UssJDtZp

[Arun Ulag @arunulag]

One of my favorite parts of our third #FabCon and first‑ever #SQLCon in the US was the chance to spend time with the community.

This conference exists because of the people who show up, ask hard questions, share ideas, and help shape the tools we build together. That partnership is what made #PowerBI what it is today, and it’s what’s helping accelerate what we’re building with #MicrosoftFabric.

It’s been incredible to see how far this community has grown. THANK YOU - to those who joined us in Atlanta, and looking forward to our journey ahead.

[Adam Saxton @awsaxton]

KIAH 🛫 KSEA. No rest for the weary. Off to homebase for a leadership off-site. May also catch up with folks there for MVP Summit.