New blog post... EightKB 2026 schedule and registration EightKB is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! dbafromthecold.com/2026/06/15/e...

Unwinding after a fantastic @dataceili.bsky.social event A huge thank you to all the speakers, sponsors, and volunteers...you folks are amazing and are what makes the event so great. Céilí will be back next year!

EightKB is back!

Summer in Dublin!

Kube-PacMan...a KubeInvaders inspired Chaos Enginnering tool to test high availability in Kubernetes!

New blog post! Delving into the different distance metrics for semantic similarity searches in SQL Server 2025 dbafromthecold.com/2026/05/28/d... #sqlserver #sqlblog #ai #vector

Speaker here just said anyone who does live demos is a maniac Guess I'm a maniac!

Final day @sqlbits.bsky.social Come join me at 10am in Room 1A where we'll be talking about New Features in SQL Server 2025 (That aren't AI 😂) #sqlbits

Off to @sqlbits.bsky.social !

New blog post - Visualising vectors in high dimensional space #sqlserver #sql2025 #ai #vectors dbafromthecold.com/2026/04/17/v...

Ireland's continuing lack of awareness of the presence of global far-right influence/activism in Ireland literally keeps me awake at night

Where do you even start with #MicrosoftFabric governance? On 2026-04-16, Paul Andrew breaks down capacities, domains, workspaces, and how to organise data products for effective delivery to your business users. swfta.uk/ug-2026-04 #DataGovernance #Analytics

haha, new blog post... The Burrito Bot: AI-Powered Search in SQL Server 2025 This post details, from the ground up, how to perform searches over embeddings in SQL 2025...to provide burrito recommendations in Ireland! (at last...something useful built with AI) dbafromthecold.com/2026/03/27/t...

Ok I think my blood pressure is back down to normal after that

Argh, so I installed a plugin on my site which apparently converted my wordpress site to a "plugin enabled" site....which has broken all code formatting on ALL my posts...

EightKB is back for 2026! The largest online SQL Server internals conference is coming on August 20th...and the CFP is open! Calling all you experts out there...fancy talking at the online SQL Server conference? :-) dbafromthecold.com/2026/03/18/e...

To everyone at Data Saturday Chicago, thank you so much! Hope my session was useful!

On our way over to Data Saturday Chicago!

About to do the first public presentation on The Burrito Bot! Oh I hope this all works...

MicrosoftFabricMgmt: Error Handling - Retry Logic and Long Running Operations Introduction REST APIs fail. Networks are unreliable. Cloud services have rate limits. If your automation script does not account for this, it will eventually break at the worst possib blog.robsewell.com/blog/microso...

Still adding to the stickers

Absolute madness I love the six nations #SCOvFRA

If Wales beat Italy next weekend, bottom will have beaten a team who beat whoever finishes top. That's some proper, vintage, all-time tournament shit.

ICYMI: If you use SQL Server on a non-Windows OS, and want cool Query Store reports, go here. github.com/jdanton/quer... It's beta, but it works, and I'd like some more feedback.

Woooooooooooo!

Wooooo I've created a web app in Azure that's so secure no-one can access it

Great performance by Ireland!

"Find someone who loves you the way Guins loves to examine even the smallest details of the creation story of video games." @washingtonpost.com reviews "King PONG," a history dedicated to Atari’s first video game: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Fun post for a Friday....a little tweak to VS Code for presenting dbafromthecold.com/2026/02/20/p... #sqlserver #presenting #conferences

Winter Olympics > Summer Olympics

Of all the things I never thought I have to deal with... dealing with a pissed off little cat because the cat food company changed the ingredients in her favourite treats and she now no longer likes them...and blames me

Oh yay, the Six Nations has started

And that's it...the Data Ceili 2026 call for speakers is closed. MASSIVE thank you to everyone who has submitted...we will start the selection process and let you all know asap (this is the WORST part of running a conference)

Data Ceili call for speakers closes tonight! Come and speak at the amazing Trinity College in Dublin! sessionize.com/data-ceili-2...

#sqlserver CU issues with DB Mail have been fixed:

3 days to go until the CfP for Data Ceili closes! Fancy speaking at the amazing Trinity College in Dublin? sessionize.com/data-ceili-2... #sqlserver #fabric #sql2025 #powerbi

Very cool....booting from a vinyl record boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vi...

Fun (well, for me :-) ) on a Friday....looking at startup scripts in SQL Server containers dbafromthecold.com/2026/01/23/s... #sqlserver #sql2025 #containers #kubernetes

Hey everyone, just a reminder that the Data Ceili call for speakers is still open. Thank you to everyone who has already submitted, there are awesome sessions in there. dbafromthecold.com/2025/12/16/d...

How have I not heard about this until now? www.galwaytourism.ie/event/tedfes...

George Kechagias and I wrote an article about deploying MySQL on Kubernetes using the Percona Operator with OpenTaco 😊 Feel free to explore! Demo github.com/percona/perc... Article percona.com/blog/deployi... #opentaco #opensource #perconamysql #kubernetes

Update to my post on Vertically scaling SQL Server online in Kubernetes... dbafromthecold.com/2025/05/22/v... Unfortunately SQL won't see the resource increase...I know...should have tested more...but we can restart the container instead of the whole pod!

We are soooo excited to announce that the tickets for the 2026 Open Hardware Summit are officially available! Snag your tickets today and maybe even get yourself an extra cool Summit tee? 👀 ticket.nodeforum.org/OHS26/

What is happening in the Snooker?

🚀 Containers ≠ black magic. @dbafromthecold.com showed us how to go from #Docker to #Kubernetes with real-world clarity at #PSConfEU 25: ✔️ Persistent data ✔️ StatefulSets ✔️ Secrets & YAML configs ✔️ SQL Server in K8s 🎟️ Tix open for 2026 → psconf.eu #PowerShell

*Checks inbox* Ah beans....

What theme is everyone using for SSMS 22? I like mystical forest :-)

I'm getting on a plane

You have about one week left to submit your abstracts to @datasatsto.se. Beautiful early-summer Stockholm awaits! sessionize.com/data-saturda...

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