All of a sudden it's spring on the hills. #MorningWalk

Beautiful day for a #MorningWalk

if you use a Mac and use SQL Server, check this out. It's very alpha right now, but it works a little. github.com/jdanton/quer...

Sure, you might *know* the power of #SQL expressions in #Grafana... But what does it look like in action? We created a dashboard on Grafana Play so you can see for yourself. Give it a whirl: https://play.grafana.org/d/mapr4nb/sql-expressions-showcase?orgId=1&from=now-6h&to=now&timezone=utc

Years - 4 Victories - 0 Casualties - 1,260,000🌻 Coups -1 Ruble -💩 War crimes -♾ NATO -🇫🇮&🇸🇪 Goodwill gestures - 🤷 Warships -Submarines Submarines -Sub marine Aircraft - 🚀💥 Refineries -🔥🦩 Raccoons -1🦝 Tankies - 😭 Tanks -🚜 Red lines - ➡️ I remain a master strategist

It’s been four years today. People in Ukraine are still fighting and dying to defend the rest of us from russian aggression. Every day, Russia uses cruise missiles and UAVs to target civilian infrastructure like hospitals and powerplants. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

No #MorningWalk today

Over the past two months, I’ve been diving deep into agentic coding with tools like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. It’s incredible to witness how rapidly software development is evolving - and just how much leverage you can gain when you use these tools intentionally.

Beautiful day for a #MorningWalk

If you're trying out the SQL MCP quickstart, make sure you change the Dockerfile to use data-api-builder:1.7.81-rc instead of the shown data-api-builder:1.7.83-rc. The latter seems broken: 81 works. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/... #SqlServer #MCP #AzureSql

Foggy day on the hills of Conegliano

Announcing database instructions and a lot of fixes in SQL Server Management Studio 22.3 buff.ly/nd8mDSf #sqlserver #ssms #database #azuresql #data #dba

My new vlog is live. Time to look at Optimized Locking in SQL Server 2025. What is Transaction ID Locking? What problem does it solve, how does it work, and what are the limitations? Find out here! sqlserverfast.com/blog/hugo/20...

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2025 CU2. It is Build 17.0.4015.4. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubl... #SQLServer #SQLServer2025

#DataSaturdayChicago is coming up sooner than we realize. Here’s @sqlbek.bsky.social‘s post about all the reasons you don’t want to miss it: sqlbek.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/d...

Experience: I am the Excel world champion

ChatGPT free tier just analyzed 1 GB of cluster logs for me, got me my answer in less that a minute. Color me impressed

I discovered that my blog post about columnstore indexes missed crucial information about the delete buffer for nonclustered columnstore indexes, and that I had gotten a little something wrong about the deleted bitmap. And so, I just updated that post. sqlserverfast.com/blog/hugo/20...

Children's books should have a list of characters at the start, along with suggested voices or accents. I don't want to get two-thirds of the way through a book I'm reading for my daughter before I discover that I should be doing a Scottish accent for one of the characters.

New blog post: SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for February 2026 glennsqlperformance.com/2026/02/02/s... #SQLServer #SQLServer2025

As of this morning, I am on the job market, #OpenToWork, or however that is designated here. 🙂 I’m immediately looking for a new position, and my DMs are open. Thanks network!

It's time for my session at #DataSatDenmark! Join me in room 106 to discuss the future of databases!

It’s frustrating when native English speakers don’t adjust their speech for international audiences. They absolutely can, but many times won’t.

Something exciting is coming for SQL + AI! A series of challenges kicks off next week that 's the perfect opportunity for you to flex your SQL skill set. You don't need to be an expert; each experience builds on the last. #SQLServer #SQLServer2025 techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserv...

#sqlserver CU issues with DB Mail have been fixed:

the foreign descriptions of what is going on are hilarious and terrifying www.youtube.com/shorts/SfzuV...

In Copenaghen everything is covered in snow right now. It doesn't cease to amaze me how young girls are sporting UGG slippers in these conditions

Rain on the hills, snow on the mountains #MorningWalk

Time for my session at data community Austria 2026

Above the clouds

Hey friends - code completions are now available for GitHub Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio! SSMS 22.2.1 dropped today - blog post with more info: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserv...

Donald Trump è preoccupante E parla con Rutte [semicit.]

Freezing cold #MorningWalk

Is SentryOne dead? Or at least SQL Sentry product? Their support anymore is more of a hindrance to use the product than help.

He who knows nothing but threats and tarrifs clearly can not be the leader of the free world.

If you use Database Mail in SQL Server, you should not install SQL Server 2022 CU23 (which breaks Database Mail). learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubl... #SQLServer #SQLServer2022

“The point is that you can’t be too greedy.” “Deals work best when each side gets something it wants from the other.” “The worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it.” We all knew that #Trump didn't write "The art of the deal". Now we know he also didn't read it.

BREAKING Canadian PM Mark Carney: "The future of Greenland is a decision for Greenland and for the Kingdom of Denmark. We are NATO partners with Denmark and so our obligations on Article 5, Article 2 of NATO stand and we stand four-square behind those." Canada will defend Greenland.

Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.

This is 100% correct and the EU should do it immediately. The USA will break if a bunch of entitled Americans suddenly can’t book get-aways in Paris.

Cold and cloudy for my #MorningWalk

New Year, New Colour Tool for you data visualizers and maybe the odd designer obumbratta.com/colour

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

Cold weather on the hills for my #MorningWalk

Working with clients who disallow copy/pasting on RDP sessions? Use ClickPaste: github.com/Collective-S... Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas!

[Blog] Stop Being Surprised by Your Azure Bill: Use Budgets | John Morehouse #Azure #Budgets #Goverance #SaveMeTheMoney

"Git is the worst form of version control, except for all the others" [semicit.]

XeSmartTarget 2.0.6 is out! Now supports Azure AD Authentication. Check it out: github.com/spaghettidba... #sqlserver

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.