Data Saturday Chicago 2026 Call for Speakers is open for about another week. Interested in presenting? We'd love to have you! Submit your abstract(s) ASAP! #sqlfamily #datafamily sessionize.com/data-saturda...

Introducing the Azure SQL hub: A simpler, guided entry into #AzureSQL. Trying to decide what Azure service is the right fit for you? it's worth trying this out. Answer a few questions & you can do a side by side comparison, w/o leaving the portal. techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azuresq...

We're not letting up, straight into demos in the 4th session of EightKB 2025!

Keeping the mind-meltiness going is our third session in flow!

And we're off with the second session at EightKB 2025!

And we are off with the first session of this year's EightKB!

It's one hour to go to this year's edition of EightKB! All registered attendees should have the link to the conference now, if you don't...please do let us know in the #EightKB channel in the SQL community slack. See you in an hour!

Data Saturday Chicago 2026 call for speakers is now open! We'd love to have you present - submit your sessions! sessionize.com/data-saturda...

Very excited to announce Data Saturday Chicago 2026 will be held on March 14, 2026! bobpusateri.com/2025/07/data...

Reading: Avoid #T-SQL anti-patterns with the free T-SQL analysis tool #AzureData #AzureSQL

Reading: How to enable Auditing in Azure SQL Databases to Storage account and store logs in JSON format #AzureData #AzureSQL

Smokers aged 75+ have on average 5.8 fewer teeth than their non-smoking counterparts. #BobFacts

Reading: One year of Phi: Small language models making big leaps in #AI

Reading: Efficiently and Elegantly Modeling Embeddings in #Azure #SQL and SQL Server #AzureData #AzureSQL #SQLServer

Approximately 1 in 8 workers in the USA has been employed by McDonald's at some point. #BobFacts

Wishing everyone a wonderful time at #SQLDay! I hope to join you all one of these years! #sqlfamily

Reading: #Fabric Mirroring for #Azure #CosmosDB: Public Preview Refresh Now Live with New Features #AzureData

Reading: Predictable #LLM results with Structured Output and sp_invoke_external_rest_endpoint #AzureData #AzureSQL

the New Pope says he's from Chicago but he's *actually* from Naperville

Reading: #Azure #CosmosDB Conf 2025 Recap: AI, Apps & Scale #AzureData

Brass and other copper-based alloys have an antimicrobial property known as the "oligodynamic effect." #BobFacts

Reading: Recently released: Updates to the #SqlPackage and the #DacFx ecosystem #AzureData #AzureSQL #SQLServer

Reading: #MSSQL Extension for #VSCode - Introducing Schema Compare (Preview) #AzureData #AzureSQL

The Faroe Islands are one of the very few countries in Europe to have no McDonalds. There is, however, a Burger King. #BobFacts

Reading: Using a Local Large Language Model (LLM): Interacting with Local LLMs Using #PowerShell #AI #LLM

The land area of the Vatican City is 0.5km^2 (0.2 mi^2). Meaning it has a Popeulation density of 2 Popes per km^2, or 5 popes per mi^2. #BobFacts

Reading: Enhancing Search Capabilities in SQL Server and #Azure #SQL with Hybrid Search and RRF Re-Ranking #AzureData #AzureSQLDB #SQLServer

Reading: #Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2025: Learn, Build, and Connect with the Community #AzureData #CosmosDB

The greatest sheer vertical drop on Earth (4101 feet / 1250 meters) can be found at Mt. Thor on Baffin Island, Canada. #BobFacts

Reading: Conversion to Hyperscale: Now generally available with enhanced efficiency #AzureData #AzureSQLDB

Reading: Learn more about what’s new with Microsoft #Azure #Storage at #KubeCon Europe 2025

In retirement, US President Dwight Eisenhower took up painting. He did over 260 of them, including a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. #BobFacts

Reading: Secure APIs with Data API Builder, Keycloak, and SQL Server #AzureData #SQLServer

Reading: TLS 1.3 support in Azure Cosmos DB #AzureData #CosmosDB

Reading: SQL Conf() 2025 Highlights: So Much Developer Innovation! #AzureData #AzureSQL #SQLServer

It is considered unsafe to eat more than 5 Brazil nuts per day. #BobFacts

Reading: Microsoft unveils #Microsoft Security #Copilot agents and new protections for #AI

Reading: Exact Nearest Neighbor (ENN) Vector Search for Precise Retrieval #AzureData #CosmosDB

The last natural number below 100 which can be represented as the sum of 3 cubes is 42. This was discovered in 2019. 42 = (-80538738812075974)^3 + 80435758145817515^3 + 12602123297335631^3 #BobFacts

Reading: ABORT_QUERY_EXECUTION query hint - public preview #AzureData #AzureSQLDB

As of 2014, at least 92 people have died as a result of snakebites during religious ceremonies. #BobFacts

During the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, a country changed names. Northern Rhodesia gained full independence on the last day of the games and its athletes marched in the closing ceremony as Zambia. #BobFacts

Reading: #Vector Search with #Azure SQL, Semantic Kernel and Entity Framework Core #AzureData #AzureSQL #EntityFramework

Reading: Exciting new T-SQL features: Regex support, Fuzzy matching, and bigint support in DATEADD – preview #AzureData #AzureSQL

The rarest passport in the world is issued by the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, with only about 500 people having one as of February 2018. #BobFacts www.escape.com.au/news/soverei...

Reading: MSSQL Extension for VS Code: What’s new and what’s next #AzureData #AzureSQL #SQLServer

Reading: New #Azure #CosmosDB Design Patterns Video Series – Learn, Implement, and Contribute! #AzureData

A study found that while women are less likely to receive donated kidneys than men, they are also more likely to become living kidney donors than men. #BobFacts

Some days I really feel like demolition has to be one of the world's most satisfying jobs. "Here's a structure - destroy it." There's a clear goal and both progress and success are easy to measure. I realize there can be many complicating factors, but wow does it seem fun!

Reading: Build a Streamlit application with #Fabric #SQL Database #AzureData #MicrosoftFabric