Stack Overflow & AI
I won’t try to pretend otherwise, I’ve had some mixed feelings about Stack Overflow for a long time. I think the concept of the place, ask a question, get...
2025-06-04 (first published: 2025-05-21)
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Blog Posts
Why I Created the SQL Rescue Sprint – And How It Works
Over the past 25 years, I’ve worked with SQL Server in all kinds of environments: startups, mid-size companies, and global enterprises. And no matter the industry or infrastructure, one...
2025-06-04
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My first year on full disability, wow!
What a year … At the end of May 2024, I went on full time disability. For the first time in my adult life, I was not fully employed....
2025-06-03 (first published: 2025-06-02)
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Getting References for GenAI Results
I wrote an editorial on the view of GenAI tech from execs and someone commented that they wanted references for results. Most of us might take a result from...
2025-06-02
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KDA: Echoes of Deception - Case 2
The people of Digitown are being targeted by phishermen, and they need my help to stop them in their tracks.
The problem
The police have asked for our assistance, and we’ve...
2025-06-02 (first published: 2025-05-13)
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SQL Server 2025 Is Here – AI Just Changed Everything!
🔟 Top 10 Features of SQL Server 2025 #SQLServer2025 #MicrosoftSQL #DatabaseUpdates #SQLAI #SQLFeatures #SQLServerCopilot #VectorSearch #MicrosoftFabric #DataEngineering #TechUpdates #decodeites #mssqlfun
2025-06-02
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T-SQL REST API Integration in SQL Server 2025: Streamlining T-SQL Snapshot Backups
In this post, I’ll walk you through a T-SQL script that creates application-consistent snapshots on Pure Storage FlashArray, all from within SQL Server, no external tooling. SQL Server 2025...
2025-06-02 (first published: 2025-05-19)
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SQL Blunders: Stop Writing These Pointless Queries & Write Smarter!
They run, they return data. So what? Some SQL queries just waste your time and resources. Here’s what to stop writing – and the much smarter alternatives. Sure, your...
2025-05-31
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A New Word: Falesia
falesia– n. the disquieting awareness that someone’s importance to you and your importance to them may not necessarily match – that your best friend might only think of you...
2025-05-30
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Copilot Outside of SSMS Seems to Work
I read Brent’s first look at SSMS and Copilot in there. He didn’t have a great opinion of the tool, especially comparing it to Gemini or Claude. I haven’t...
2025-05-30
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Art
By Steve Jones
Superheroes and saints never make art. Only imperfect beings can make art because art...
Why Optimize CPU for RDS SQL Server is a game changer
One feature that I have been waiting for years! The new announcement around optimize...
Performance tuning KubeVirt for SQL Server
Following on from my last post about Getting Started With KubeVirt & SQL Server,...
Forums
The AI Bubble and the Weak Foundation Beam
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The AI Bubble and the...
data type gets lost in data flow
Hi, in a simple oledb source->derived column->oledb destination data flow, 2 of my...
i noticed the sqlhealth extende event is on by default , so can i reduce
hi, i noticed the sqlhealth extended event is on by default , and it...
Question of the Day
The Read Committed Snapshot Isolation behaviour
I am currently working with Sql Server 2022 and AdventureWorks database. First of all, let's set the "Read Committed Snapshot" to ON:
use master; go alter database AdventureWorks set read_committed_snapshot on with no_wait; goThen, from Session 1, I execute the following code:
--Session 1 use AdventureWorks; go create table ##t1 (id int, f1 varchar(10)); go insert into ##t1 values (1, 'A');From another session, called Session 2, I open a transaction and execute the following update:
--Session 2 use AdventureWorks; go begin tran; update ##t1 set f1 = 'B' where id = 1;Now, going back to Session 1, what happens if I execute this statement?
--Session 1 select f1 from ##t1 where id = 1;See possible answers