Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad data in production. If you’ve never been in this situation, having a plan beforehand is...
2026-08-17 (first published: 2026-07-30)
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Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database is another great tool for learning SQL. You can even use it for low-traffic or...
2026-08-14 (first published: 2026-07-30)
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If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview) to find cryptographic weaknesses in two algorithms. However, this doesn't impact anything anyone has in...
2026-08-12 (first published: 2026-07-29)
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Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out of the database, calls Amazon Bedrock, and writes the vectors back. That is a second...
2026-08-12 (first published: 2026-07-29)
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I wrote earlier this week about the SQL MCP Server using the Data API Builder. In that post I showed how to query the MCP server from VSCode, but...
2026-08-10 (first published: 2026-07-29)
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Yesterday, July 27, 2026, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity effort called Project Perception. Included in that announcement were high level details about MDASH with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, which is reported to...
2026-08-07 (first published: 2026-07-28)
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If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The SQL MCP Server is a part of the Data API Builder (DAB). DAB is a...
2026-08-05 (first published: 2026-07-27)
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Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against a local Azure SQL Database Developer container — the same engine as the cloud, running...
2026-08-10 (first published: 2026-07-26)
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I have been asked many times about how the name “Data on Wheels” came to be. I decided that is a good topic to ramble about, so here goes....
2026-08-07 (first published: 2026-07-25)
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