The end of an era – why I chose not to renew my MVP
Two years ago, two things happened within a few days of each other. I retired from 3Cloud going on full time disability due to ALS, and I was awarded...
2026-05-26
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PowerShell Strikes Back: A New Script
This is it. The final chapter of PowerShell Strikes Back. Over the past four weeks, you’ve built a real foundation. You know that single quotes are literal and double...
2026-06-15 (first published: 2026-05-26)
540 reads
Claude Desktop
Claude is more than a chat window. The desktop experience includes structured workspaces, generated outputs, integrations, execution capabilities, memory and reusable workflows. This is a quick introduction to some...
2026-05-26
51 reads
PostgreSQL: Diagnosing and Fixing a Sequential Scan with No Filter Predicate
A sequential scan is not always a problem — PostgreSQL's planner often chooses one correctly for small tables or queries that return most of a table's rows. The dangerous...
2026-05-25
727 reads
Giving AI Agents Visibility Into SQL Server with MCP
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an AI agent genuinely useful for database work, both for administration and for application access to...
2026-06-12 (first published: 2026-05-24)
512 reads
The Book of Redgate: Profits
Redgate is a for-profit company. We look to make money by building and selling tools that help you. If we do a good job, we make money. If we...
2026-05-22
57 reads
Session Materials for Techorama & DataGrillen 2026
I’ve uploaded the slides for my Techorama session Microsoft Fabric for Dummies and my DataGrillen session Building the €100 data warehouse with the Azure Data Platform to Github. If...
2026-05-22
56 reads
Stop Using Pandas for Aggregations — Try DuckDB Instead
If you've ever loaded a 2 GB CSV into pandas just to run a few aggregations — and watched your machine struggle — there's a better tool for the...
2026-06-10 (first published: 2026-05-21)
601 reads
Understanding Fabric Ontology
What problem is Fabric Ontology trying to solve? For years, most data conversations have started with tables. We ask where the data lives, what columns are available, how the...
2026-06-10 (first published: 2026-05-20)
444 reads
QUOTENAME Basics: #SQLNewBlogger
Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A colleague was having some trouble with the code, but what struck me was that I...
2026-06-08 (first published: 2026-05-20)
454 reads
Blogs
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
Keeping Track of my ConEmu CLIs
By Steve Jones
I use ConEmu for my terminal interface. I’m still on Windows 10 at home,...
10 Decisions to Make Before You Create A Fabric Workspace
Creating a Fabric workspace takes about 30 seconds. Restructuring workspaces after people have built...
Forums
A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
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Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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