Presenting Twice in May 2026
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person twice in May 2026. With summer vacations coming up, this is a perfect time of...
2026-03-30
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Journey Part 2: Modern Era (2017 – 2026) – AI/Cloud First
Following up on my Part 1 baseline, the journey from 2017 onward changed how we look at the “Engine.” We moved from Service Packs to a faster world of...
2026-03-28 (first published: 2026-03-27)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now Day 6 is inside of AI , how AI understand us, as computer do not...
2026-03-27 (first published: 2026-03-06)
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EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is back…it’s all happening on August the 20th! We’ve open our call for speakers, you can...
2026-03-27 (first published: 2026-03-18)
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SQL Server Journey (Part 1)- Enterprise Database 2016
Continued thinking about my Journey blog where we have to look back at the revolutionary of SQL Server till SQL Server 2025. I would like to brief more on...
2026-03-27 (first published: 2026-03-26)
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The Book of Redgate: No Politics
In today’s world, this might mean something different, but in 2010, we had this value: In our context, this was about being open and transparent. This is the text...
2026-03-27
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How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture (CDC). That is still what is used to mirror SQL Server 2016 – 2022. SQL...
2026-03-25 (first published: 2026-03-11)
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March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released patches for SQL Server to address privilege escalation vulnerabilities in supported versions. Time to patch!
2026-03-25 (first published: 2026-03-12)
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ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during debugging with a BadRequest error, even though it validates successfully. If you’re wondering, this is...
2026-03-23 (first published: 2026-03-06)
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7 we would learn about Vectors and Vector Databases. this is a place where AI data...
2026-03-23 (first published: 2026-03-07)
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Blogs
Capturing My Own Metrics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
A customer was trying to compare two tables and capture a state as a...
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
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Checking the Error Log I
On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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