A New Word: on tenderhooks
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which makes you feel that much more rooted to the world, even if the roots belong...
2026-02-27
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INSERT-VALUES – Bigger is NOT always Better!
One of the super cool features in 26ai is the ability to extend the VALUES clause in your INSERT statements to allow multiple rows per execution. If you’re unfamiliar...
2026-02-27
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Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met people and made friends in the process. As I look back on it, I am...
2026-02-26
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SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part of all the Versions!! 7 (70)– Foundation, OLAP Services, Query Analyzer 2000 (80) – SSAS,...
2026-02-27 (first published: 2026-02-26)
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Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
Why this comparison feels confusing If you’re a Power BI report author who’s just getting into Microsoft Fabric, you’ve probably asked the same question I hear over and over:...
2026-03-09 (first published: 2026-02-26)
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Identity Columns Can’t Be Updated: #SQLNewBlogger
I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran into this while trying to solve a problem recently and had to check the error...
2026-02-25
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Rolling Back a Broken Release
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward or back from the point when you discover a problem. You can watch the episode...
2026-03-13 (first published: 2026-02-23)
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A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution that meets your needs and you’re scared about the costs of a fully bespoke reporting...
2026-03-04 (first published: 2026-02-22)
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Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in Visual Studio Code…they make presenting (and generally working) in Visual Studio Code really smooth. But...
2026-02-27 (first published: 2026-02-20)
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Advice I Like: In 100 Years
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will be proved to be wrong, maybe even embarrassingly wrong. A good question to ask yourself...
2026-03-06 (first published: 2026-02-20)
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Blogs
Measuring RAG Solutions: Are We Retrieving the Right Information?
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate with MCP
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
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Server-Level Row Counts for Tables and Views
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Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization vs. Parameter Sniffing: What SQL Server Fixes and What It Doesn't
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Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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