PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
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...
2026-09-09
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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...
2026-09-08
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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...
2026-09-08
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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...
2026-09-08
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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...
2026-09-04
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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...
2026-09-04
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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...
2026-09-04
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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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PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
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Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
Ten Years of PowerShell
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T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
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It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions II
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^d') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers