In Part 1, we saw how ‘Vamana’ represents vectors as nodes, connects them with edges, and uses greedy graph traversal to avoid comparing a query against every vector in...
2026-09-23 (first published: 2026-09-14)
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Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and one of my talks is on the Data API Builder. I want to show how...
2026-09-23 (first published: 2026-09-09)
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I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates HammerDB benchmarking for SQL Server using Docker. If you’ve ever needed to run TPC-C or...
2026-09-21 (first published: 2026-09-12)
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One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups. The ability to leverage the snapshot capabilities of modern storage arrays to take application consistent...
2026-09-21 (first published: 2026-09-11)
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“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent Advice for Living Whenever we read about the success of someone or something, we often...
2026-09-18 (first published: 2026-09-04)
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My T-SQL Tuesday #202 entry for Marlon Ribunal's invitation on memorable SQL Server outages. Two nights I still remember minute by minute, and what I do differently because of...
2026-09-18 (first published: 2026-09-08)
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How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically provided by me,including examples.Grammarly to catch grammar and sentence construction errors. In Part 1, we...
2026-09-16 (first published: 2026-09-08)
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