A Pursuit of Lifelong Learning

The following came across my YouTube feed today. It’s an interview with General James Mattis, USMC, Retired, talking about lifelong learning, the expectations of learning in the Marine Corps,...

Advice I Like: Time and Focus

“You don’t need more time because you already have all the time that you will ever get; you need more focus.” – from Excellent Advice for Living Boy, I...

Book Review: Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals

I don’t currently manage Microsoft 365 Copilot in an enterprise environment, but it is one of those technologies that I want to understand better. As AI becomes part of...

Power BI Fun With Travels

I’m back from a great vacation. I had the chance to visit two new countries (for me and my wife) and many new cities as we cruised around the...

The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server

“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA should ask about any AI agent. AgentDBA answers it from its own records: every decision...

Lift and shift vs modernizing your data warehouse

If you are migrating a data warehouse, there is a question worth asking before you start: should you recreate the existing solution on the new platform, or use the...

How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)

How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)

Updated for SSMS 21 and later: This is a new, rewritten version of my earlier article...

dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts

You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your SQL – Intro to window functions” at GitHub.
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DiskANN Experiment — Exploring Entry Points and Graph Neighborhoods

Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8 million Hacker News articles that that I used for my talk on SQL Server-based vector...

How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections

I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But why keep this important visual warning at the bottom of the screen? In this post,...