From SQL Saturday to Day of Data
A behind-the-scenes look at Day of Data Jacksonville 2026, the transition from SQL Saturday, and everything that went right—and wrong—along the way.
2026-06-26 (first published: 2026-06-06)
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PostgreSQL 18 Finally Makes BUFFERS the Default. Here Is Why That Matters
You run EXPLAIN ANALYZE on a slow query, stare at the plan, and something still feels off. The estimated rows look reasonable, the node timings add up, but you...
2026-06-05
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A New Word: La Guadière
la guadière – n. a glint of goodness you notice in something that you wouldn’t expect, which is often only detectable by sloshing them back and forth in your...
2026-06-05
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Microsoft Purview data governance best practices
Microsoft Purview can be the best data governance tool in the world, but it will still be useless if people do not know it exists, do not trust the...
2026-06-04
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AI Insights for Database Monitoring: A DBA’s Perspective
Second in a series on Ai and databases. One Story, three signals – I have a backup of a critical database that has failed three times, the recovery point...
2026-06-05 (first published: 2026-06-04)
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Crash-Consistent MongoDB Snapshot and Restore with Everpure Fusion
I’ve been working on a project that combines two things I spend a lot of time with: MongoDB sharded clusters and Everpure FlashArrays. The goal is a production-grade backup...
2026-06-04
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AI and Data Engineering on the Edge: The Good, the Bad, and the Overhyped
Running AI and data pipelines on the edge instead of the cloud has gone from a niche embedded concern to a default option on a lot of architecture diagrams....
2026-06-03
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UNION vs UNIONALL: #SQLNewBlogger
While writing another post I realized my UNION query didn’t work as one might initiall expect, so I decided a short post was worth writing. This is based on...
2026-06-03
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Deciphering Data Architectures Is Now Available in Multiple Languages
Since the release of my book Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh, I’ve been fortunate to hear from readers...
2026-06-02
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T-SQL Tuesday #199 Invitation: Back to on-prem?
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again! And we’re almost to number 200! T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly community blogging event started by Adam Machanic in 2009. Each month a...
2026-06-02
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Blogs
Are Blogs Still Relevant? - T-SQL Tuesday #204
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
How I Built RAG for My Accounting App on Bedrock and pgvector
The first version of my accounting assistant could not find a single purchase of...
Why AI isn’t paying off yet, and what to invest in first
Why isn’t AI paying off yet? Drawing on lessons from digital transformation, Joyful Craftsmen...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers