SQL: Echoes from the field 6 - Controlling stored procedure execution context (Part 2) blog.greglow.com/2025/11/10/e...

First: I am really proud of this blog post title. It’s for the girlies (IYKYK). Second: .NET 10 drops tomorrow, so I did a whirlwind tour of the big and small features I worked on this cycle. Third: go read it! #dotnet #aspnetcore 📰 :https://blog.safia.rocks/2025/11/10/aspnetcore-ten/

New data from our upcoming State of Database Report is alarming. Over a third of #DBA pros are considering quitting due to burnout. They're spending 27 hours a week trapped in reactive "firefighting." Join me tomorrow, Tuesday Nov-11, for the webinar! solarwinds.pulse.ly/wg3r8vg5u2

GenAI is especially good at turning good writers into great writers. Take a look at these tools to enhance your progress. Cheers! =^D www.solarwinds.com/blog/observa...

We're seeking passionate law students to join EFF’s legal team as interns! Get involved in fighting for free speech, privacy, and innovation. www.eff.org/about/oppor...

BREAKING NEWS: TYLENOL RESEARCHERS FIND DISTURBING LINK BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN

A single AI model trained to control numerous robotic bodies can operate unfamiliar hardware and adapt eerily well to serious injuries.

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

https://bit.ly/3ZGmifd SQL Server: Security for Developers Join the 9k+ people who have learned how to better #secure their #databases in #SQL #Server. #LinkedIn #Learing #IT

Read all about the 200+ #Kaggle #OpenAI to Z hackathon entries and see how they explored complex challenges using #OpenData and AI models - www.kaggle.com/competitions...

Teams of 1-4 middle and high school students are invited to build a cool app in the www.congressionalappchallenge.us! Help make our world a better place! IT professionals are also invited to serve as volunteer judges. #AppDev #STEM

Worth the read for #data people - This New Algorithm for Sorting Books or Files Is Close to Perfection buff.ly/3w1ey0v

Hey IT friends, join me on 9/11 for my webinar, "The Role of the DBA in 2025: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities," discussing the impact of cloud services, automation, and GenAI. The session will be recorded. Register here: www.mssqltips.com/webcast/stat...

I just posted a short video about SSIS Framework Manager (bsky.app/profile/andy...), software I've dreamed about building for, well, for a long time now. I'm excited to reach this milestone! :{>

Check out Kaggle's newest Data & Analytics challenge with $100k in prizes! Use @BigQueryAI, #OpenData, and the newest #GenAI features from @Google to build a real-world app. Gather your team and go for gold! #SQL #Database www.kaggle.com/competitions...

Thursday, 2 PM ET - Join me and other data management experts as we highlight key technologies, tools, and best practices for building modern data apps. @DBTAmag @Informatica @Couchbase @CrateDB #DBA #Database www.dbta.com/Webinars/224...

Tech Evangelist Sascha Giese at SolarWinds explains how #cybersecurity leaders are rethinking operational resilience in the age of cloud-native infrastructure and AI-driven threats.

While Australia's biggest bank claimed that its recently added chatbots justified the elimination of dozens of employees, the AI use only ended up creating a scramble behind the scenes.

Who else knows what I'm talking about? 😆

A good thread to review discussing the failings and successes of Claude Code and, broadly, AI coding

Data Saturday Chicago 2026 call for speakers is now open! Would you like to present a session? Submit your abstracts now! sessionize.com/data-saturda...

Nearly 90% of IT leaders believe their organizations are resilient, with 1/3rd calling themselves “very resilient.” But there's a strategic disconnect. Read - 5 Things We Learned From the IT Trends Report 2025 at www.solarwinds.com/campaign/it-... #ITTrends2025 #OperationalResilience #ITLeadership

New data shows most teams think they’ve nailed their tech stack. Yet many still grapple with disconnected tools, siloed data, and reactive workflows. Tooling alone doesn’t equal resilience. Read more www.solarwinds.com/campaign/it-... #ITTrends2025 #OperationalResilience #ThoughtLeadership

IT people who build apps, IYKYK. And this video has so many funny and quotable lines. It's 6min long, but worth it. =^D www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXPp... #cloudcomputing #devops

Learn in this article by Sascha Giese, Global Tech Evangelist at SolarWinds, about on-prem #repatriation and why organizations are reassessing whether all workloads belong in the cloud or should come back on-prem.

PgUS is looking for volunteers! We have jobs both large and small so even if you only have a little time to give, we’d love to hear from you! bit.ly/pgusvolunteer #PostgreSQL #postgres #volunteer

Humblebundle with an O'Reilly dump of all things SQL and a bit of databases thrown in for good measure. Fun project would be building a rag agent over this content. (Offered just to drive @prietschka.bsky.social crazy!) #databs

In this article, Sascha Giese, my fellow Tech Evangelist at SolarWinds, shares his thoughts on why inclusive #AI must go hand in hand with advances in technology and align with guiding principles on bias, transparency and inclusivity.

Downtime rarely comes at a good time. But true resilience means responding, adapting, and tenacity when things go wrong. Read our newest step-by-step guide to building stronger, more resilient IT operations. #SolarWinds #OperationalResilience www.solarwinds.com/blog/a-step-...

In this article, Abhijit Banerjee, Managing Director India and SAARC at SolarWinds, shares his views on how much impact automation can make on IT Service Management (ITSM) to ease the burden on hard-pressed #ITSM teams. cxotoday.com/story/how-it...

Ever wondered why otel is so painful on the frontend and how we could make things better? Wonder no more! I had a lot of fun writing this article and venting a bit, but it wouldn’t be an article of mine if I didn’t share how the community is stepping up and how we can be a part of the change ❤️

@andycutler.bsky.social and I are launching #RetroData 🎉 We wanted to run an event focused on practical guidance, real world experience and recommended practices. 🗣️ Want to speak? Call for speakers is here: sessionize.com/retro-data-a... 📅 Want to attend? Join our meetup: meetup.com/retro-data/

Sacha Baron Cohen made this prophetic film in 2012. And this character's speach sounds like a TED Talk for MAGA. Datk times ahead...

It's another episode of your favorite podcast about your favorite database! We hope you have as much fun listening to this session with Shireesh as we did recording it. It's packed with interesting insights on managing engineering at scale, our open source efforts, and why we ❤️ Postgres.

what, specifically is the goal here? what does this actually accomplish?

Sorta off topic, but this has always stayed with me. One story from Uvalde that wasn't given enough coverage IMO. This woman was jailed for bypassing cops and getting her own children out as they just stood there. www.texasstandard.org/stories/uval...

LangChain is about to become an #LLM #observability unicorn, sources say... techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/l... via @techcrunch

Join me online for the upcoming Oregon #DataCommunity meetup on Wed, July 16, 6 PM Pacific time, where I'll share some horror stories and show cool ways you can combine #database monitoring with #DevOps to ensure that bad #SQL code doesn't go into production. www.meetup.com/oregonsql/ev...

Calling #international engineering students! Did you just decide where to study this fall? If you faced tough choices between the U.S. and other countries due to policy changes, IEEE Spectrum wants to hear your story. Reach out to editor Eliza Strickland at [email protected].

Estonian engineers found that 15-year-old #smartphones, when hacked to work together as a single self-organized unit, can handle many such tasks, including image recognition, with unexpected ease. How did they turn a bunch of old phones into a mini #datacenter? spectrum.ieee.org/smartphone-d...

Large language models’ abilities are doubling every seven months, new research suggested - IEEE Spectrum. #LLM Benchmarking: Surprising Task Complexity Gains - spectrum.ieee.org/llm-benchmar... #GenAI

As in beer.

Tech ppl, IYKYK. Am I rite?

Current EF Core version usage in EF Core Power Tools. Nice to see that EF Core 8 and 9 now accounts for 86% of usage. #dotnet #efcore

More Power with Flexible Memory in #AzureSQL Managed Instance Customize the memory-to-vCore ratio in your SQL Managed Instance, now in public preview. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azuresq... #Microsoft #SQLServer #Azure #MadeiraData

A good illustration of information vs. knowledge.

🚀 Join us Tuesday, July 8 at 12PM EST! 🎙️ “Migrating SQL Server to Azure Managed Instance using DMS / LRS” with Gilda Alvarez Learn how to streamline your migrations to the cloud using Azure Database Migration Service and Log Replay Service. 🔗 bit.ly/meetup-jul

this isn't hyperbole or caricature! It's a straightforwad, accurate characterization of what he said.

Call for Speakers for Power BI & Fabric Summit 2026 is open on Sessionize and I've just submitted a session! sessionize.com/power-bi-fab...