OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering

This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and Aamir Lakhani- with great knowledge . during the session learned about OpenClaw and more. I...

Did You Really Name That Default?

Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to avoid having SQL Server name them for you. I closed with the following statement:

SQL Server...

Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows

A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB as the source) that I’ve managed to run into, twice. I’ve set up mirroring by...

The Intersection Between DevOps and FinOps

DevOps is about shortening the system development lifecycle. Plan faster, build faster, test faster, deploy faster. But while we accelerate delivery, why not shorten the expense lifecycle as well?...

T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP

Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes in the responses. Every response had one or more of these themes woven into their...

Visualising Vectors in High Dimensional Space

Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to delve into visualisation of vector embeddings that were generated from the restaurant data pulled from...

Why your data still can’t answer a simple question 

Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes. Somewhere in the business, a decision maker is sitting on a question that the data...

Cultural Change: Fostering a Cost-Aware Culture in Your Organisation

After working deep in cloud operations, I’ve learned that FinOps isn’t really about dashboards or optimisation scripts. Tools can highlight waste, but culture determines whether anyone acts on it....

Impactful Sessions I’ve Seen: T-SQL Tuesday #196

This month I’m thrilled that Steve Hughes is hosting. I’ve read this Data on Wheels blog for a long time and I appreciate all that he does, especially given...

JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger

I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an example of why it can behave weirdly. This post looks at something you might not...