Fabric RTI 101: Filtering blog.greglow.com/2026/04/01/f...

Was just reading a discussion thread where someone mistyped "sign in options" as "sing in options". Now that would be an interesting option for biometric identification. Not great for others in the room though.

SDU Tools: LevenshteinDistance in SQL Server T-SQL blog.greglow.com/2026/03/31/s...

Fabric RTI 101: Ingestion Modes blog.greglow.com/2026/03/30/f...

SDU Tools: Jaro Winkler Similarity in SQL Server T-SQL blog.greglow.com/2026/03/29/s...

Fabric RTI 101: What are Event Schema Sets ? blog.greglow.com/2026/03/28/f...

SDU Tools: Formatting Bytes in SQL Server T-SQL blog.greglow.com/2026/03/27/s...

Fabric RTI 101: Data Quality in Real-Time blog.greglow.com/2026/03/26/f...

General: So what's a kibibyte? Binary, SI, and IEC Units blog.greglow.com/2026/03/25/g...

Was great to catch up with Dr Neil

Tech Career for Life Show 3 with Guest Dr Neil Roodyn is now published! blog.greglow.com/2026/03/24/t...

Opinion: What's the most misleading error message you've ever seen? blog.greglow.com/2026/03/23/o...

Cathy Wilcox - perfect cartoon again

Is your CEO asking you about AI in your databases yet? If they haven't, they probably will, and it's time to make sure you can discuss it confidently. youtu.be/qfmn9BsEx3M?...

AI: AB-731 Exam - Microsoft Certified AI Transformation Leader blog.greglow.com/2026/03/22/a...

SSRS and Fabric Paginated Reports: Be very careful with using "c" formatting for currency blog.greglow.com/2026/03/21/s...

Pretty predictable exam if you know about the typical AI tools, particularly Copilot and Foundry

Fabric RTI 101: Mapping Events blog.greglow.com/2026/03/20/f...

Tech Career for Life Show 2 with Guest Steve Stedman is now published! blog.greglow.com/2026/03/19/t...

Fabric RTI 101: Filtering Events blog.greglow.com/2026/03/18/f...

Opinion: Are certification exams useful for experienced people? blog.greglow.com/2026/03/17/o...

Fabric RTI 101: Event Processing Outputs blog.greglow.com/2026/03/16/f...

Opinion: Sticking with a plan even if you don't like it blog.greglow.com/2026/03/15/o...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfmn... We just added two new modules. One on Data API Builder, the other on SQL Server MCP server

Fabric RTI 101: Event Processing Inputs blog.greglow.com/2026/03/14/f...

SQL Server: What's that 1033 thing and what are locale IDs? blog.greglow.com/2026/03/13/s...

Fabric RTI 101: What are Eventstreams? blog.greglow.com/2026/03/12/f...

Glad you liked it

SQL Server Linked Servers - It's a matter of being compatible blog.greglow.com/2026/03/11/s...

When an org has a website live chat, what's a reasonable length of time between responses from the "agent"? 5mins? 10mins? 20mins? 40mins? Current one I'm connected to last responded 40mins ago. And whole time, I'm reading their website banner that claims they are "making it easier to contact us"

Fabric RTI 101: KQL Database OneLake Availability for your KQL tables blog.greglow.com/2026/03/10/f...

Not sure I believe this estimate...

SQLServer Linked Servers - Don't hard-code server names blog.greglow.com/2026/03/09/s...

Was great to hear Drew's thoughts

Fabric RTI 101: What are Eventhouses ? blog.greglow.com/2026/03/08/f...

SQL Server: Computed columns - It's a matter of persistence blog.greglow.com/2026/03/07/s...

Brand new video podcast series: Tech Career for Life - Show 1 with Guest Drew Robbins is now published! blog.greglow.com/2026/03/06/t...

The 17th edition of Warsaw IT Days is happening online on March 19th and at the PGE National Stadium in Warsaw on March 20th. I'm looking forward to speaking and there are over 300 sessions across 25 tracks. You can use the discount code WID26SP20 for 20% off. warszawskiedniinformatyki.pl/en/

SQL Server Plan Cache Pollution - Avoiding it and Fixing it blog.greglow.com/2026/03/05/s...

Fabric RTI 101: Fabric Storage Options - Warehouses blog.greglow.com/2026/03/04/f...

SQL Server and ASP.NET: Understanding Cache Dependencies in ASP.NET blog.greglow.com/2026/03/03/s...

Learn to use text embeddings using Ollama & others, vector data type, vector distance, search, and other vector functions. Learn to create external models, and call them. You know it's time to learn this stuff, and it's $195 USD.

Fabric RTI 101: Fabric Storage Options - Lakehouses blog.greglow.com/2026/03/02/f...

SQL Server: Echoes from the field 10 - What's in a name? blog.greglow.com/2026/03/01/e...

I'm looking forward to speaking at the Warsaw IT Days conference for 2026. It's a great team that's running this event, and you can join in online if you can't be in Warsaw. warszawskiedniinformatyki.pl/en/ And there's a speaker discount code of: WID26SP20 that reduces the price by 20%.

Fabric RTI 101: Fabric Storage Options - OneLake blog.greglow.com/2026/02/28/f...

SDU Tools v27.1 with a couple of case-sensitivity fixes is now released. (Thanks Dr Jens Thamm) sqldownunder.com/sdutools

SQL Server: Mixing UNION and UNION ALL Operations blog.greglow.com/2026/02/27/m...

Fabric RTI 101: How Fabric Connects to External Sources blog.greglow.com/2026/02/26/f...

Love a great troll