Ten Years of PowerShell
Ten years ago today, I filmed a Pluralsight Play by Play on open source PowerShell. I was standing between Jason Helmick and Jeffrey Snover, trying very hard not to...
2026-09-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start writing. I might have written about this before, but it’s a story that sticks with...
2026-09-16 (first published: 2026-09-08)
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T-SQL Tuesday #202 - That One Outage You'll Never Forget
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month. This month, Marlon Ribunal
(blog) asks us to talk about that one SQL Server outage...
2026-09-08
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Exploring DiskANN: Part 2: PQ, SSDs, caching and beam search
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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T-SQL Tuesday #202: The Two Outages I Won't Ever Forget
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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Measuring RAG Solutions: Are We Retrieving the Right Information?
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing as a RAG pipeline that answers them correctly. The gap between the two only shows up...
2026-09-14 (first published: 2026-09-04)
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Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
“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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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 SQL Server Estate”. I’ll drop the recording into this post once it’s published. What I...
2026-09-14 (first published: 2026-09-04)
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Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: Bringing Structured and Unstructured Data Together
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be in a warehouse, the rules may be buried in PDF files, and the explanation may...
2026-09-09 (first published: 2026-09-03)
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Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine until an auditor or an incident review asks for something older. Until now the usual...
2026-09-11 (first published: 2026-09-02)
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Blogs
DiskANN Experiment — Exploring Entry Points and Graph Neighborhoods
Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8...
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
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PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Tables
Which of the following psql meta commands (also called backslash or slash commands) will provide information about tables within a database?
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