Using AI to Build Semantic Models, Ontologies, and Fabric Data Agents
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing the way we build solutions in Microsoft Fabric. The first post explored how the new...
2026-11-12
SSMS Is Getting Smarter—and This Isn’t Just About Writing SQL
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about something almost every SQL Server DBA uses: SQL Server Management Studio.There were several SSMS announcements...
2026-11-11
48 reads
Yippee-Kai-Yay 2027 Summit in Denver
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver is the big news. My hometown and I’m excited. And tickets are cheaper. $799 now,...
2026-11-11
14 reads
PASS Data Community Summit 2026
Yesterday was the first day of sessions at the PASS Data Community Summit (after pre-cons on Monday). It’s a smaller event, but fun and more intimate. A few long...
2026-11-11
13 reads
T-SQLTuesday 204: Are blogs still relevant?
This month’s blogging party is hosted by Jeff Ianucci – his challenge is to blog on relevance of blogging. It took me a long time to get started with...
2026-11-10
11 reads
Are Blogs Still Relevant? I Think They Still Are.
As for me, I'll keep writing whenever time permits. I don't expect every post to get hundreds of views or generate a lot of discussion. If someone finds an...
2026-11-10
28 reads
Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and also has agreed to start taking over some of the T-SQL Tuesday management. Mike Walsh...
2026-11-10
15 reads
Are Blogs Still Relevant? - T-SQL Tuesday #204
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Jeff Iannucci
(blog) asks a rather meta question:
I’m asking folks to...
2026-11-10
17 reads
How I Built RAG for My Accounting App on Bedrock and pgvector
The first version of my accounting assistant could not find a single purchase of "comida" in a database full of lunches, missed the clothing rule sitting right there in...
2026-11-09
20 reads
Why AI isn’t paying off yet, and what to invest in first
Why isn’t AI paying off yet? Drawing on lessons from digital transformation, Joyful Craftsmen Group CEO Ivan Jelic explains what leaders can do to turn AI investment into business...
2026-11-09
23 reads
Blogs
Using AI to Build Semantic Models, Ontologies, and Fabric Data Agents
By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
SSMS Is Getting Smarter—and This Isn’t Just About Writing SQL
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
Yippee-Kai-Yay 2027 Summit in Denver
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
Forums
Pay for Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
Life hack that has worked well for me
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Trying to make this faster using not exists
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
Question of the Day
Switching Schemas I
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers