Power BI Fun With Travels
I’m back from a great vacation. I had the chance to visit two new countries (for me and my wife) and many new cities as we cruised around the...
2026-10-23 (first published: 2026-10-22)
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I’m back from a great vacation. I had the chance to visit two new countries (for me and my wife) and many new cities as we cruised around the...
2026-10-23 (first published: 2026-10-22)
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Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8 million Hacker News articles that that I used for my talk on SQL Server-based vector...
2026-10-26 (first published: 2026-10-19)
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This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a break with my wife. I think I’m in Croatia (or off the coast) today, but...
2026-10-13
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You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your SQL – Intro to window functions” at GitHub.
The post dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides &...
2026-10-19 (first published: 2026-10-12)
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How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
Updated for SSMS 21 and later: This is a new, rewritten version of my earlier article...
2026-10-21 (first published: 2026-10-10)
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“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA should ask about any AI agent. AgentDBA answers it from its own records: every decision...
2026-10-23 (first published: 2026-10-09)
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Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon and SQLCon Barcelona 2026, with approximately 5,000 attendees at the conference. I’ve tried to make...
2026-10-28 (first published: 2026-10-08)
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No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight for Brussels and this is my last day at work for a couple of weeks....
2026-10-07
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A few years ago I took a new job at Microsoft, working as a Senior Content Developer, and as of this writing I own all the SQL Server content...
2026-10-05
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I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that Look Too Easy. I decided to give you a few thoughts from me on the...
2026-10-14 (first published: 2026-10-05)
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By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers