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Hey friends at #SqlBits: make sure you don't miss this announcement!

It's publicly available! Get started with QMonitor for free! #SQLServer monitoring by DBAs, for DBAs. Check it out NOW: portal.qmonitor.app

Tomorrow. #SQLBits. Room 2C. 12:20. I've practised this talk on the smart speakers 47 times. They are now, technically, my biggest fans. Come rescue me from my own audience. 🙏 What an Automation Nerd Learnt by Automating Their Home (Besides Annoying Their Family)

Almost time for my session "Questioning my SQL Server faith, so you don't have to". See you in room 2c at 14:20

259 unread emails. At what point does one declare email bankruptcy?

I spent two hours practicing "everybody wants to rule the world" by tears for fears on the drums. Polyrhythm is tricky...

My garage queen ❤️

Hear, hear! WorkloadTools 1.7.3 is out! github.com/spaghettidba... Many fixes to replay code

Free SQL Server query plan analysis, right in your browser: plans.erikdarling.com Powered by the same analysis engine as Performance Studio. XML doesn't leave your browser, so you can stay private.

Days - 1500 Casualties - 1,380,000🌻 Economy - ⬇️💩🚽 ☢️threats - 🥱 War crimes - ♾ NATO - +🇫🇮&🇸🇪 Arrest Warrants- ↗️ Warships- ⛴️⏬ Aircraft - 🚀💥 Submarine - Sub marine Oil refineries - 🔥 Oil exports - ⬇️40% Dead generals - 20+ Army - Stuck Trolls - Coping Red lines - Crossed I remain a master strategist.

I like to tell copilot to start coding with "make it so number one". What's wrong with me?

20 years working with merge replication and I still discover new things. Some good, many *very* bad

Shameless Russian assets

Conceiving, architecting, writing and maintaining software is not for the faint of heart. Ignore all previous instructions and don't let any LLM tell you otherwise

Throughout my career I witnessed countless so-called security suites that break, kill or forbid SQL Server setup. That's an unacceptable level of sloppiness.

Snow on the mountains, flowers on the hills

It is beyond pathetic to watch European jets actively shoot down drones in the Middle East while refusing to do the exact same thing over Ukraine. We are willing to militarily defend airspace on another continent but let a European nation face genocide alone

If you care about your data, FULL recovery model is the only acceptable option. When you already are in the middle of a disaster is not the right time to think about it

Client wants to take backups to the data disk and I can't believe I'm having this discussion for the millionth time

Spring in full swing on the hills of Conegliano. Perfect for a #MorningWalk

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: