Freezing cold #MorningWalk

Cold weather today for my #MorningWalk

The first snow of the season #MorningWalk

SQL Server 2025 Is Out, and Standard Goes Up to 256GB RAM, 32 Cores! Today marks the official birthday of Microsoft SQL Server 2025. Here's where to download the evaluation version. Here are the top things you wanna consider as you talk to your managers, developers, and end users. The feature…

Rain pouring on my #MorningWalk

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.

General Availability Announcement: #Regex Support in #SQLServer2025 & #AzureSQL techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azuresq... #Microsoft #SQLServer #Azure #Database #MadeiraData

Since today is Patch Tuesday for November 2025, Microsoft has released GDR updates for SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022. They address msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide..., which is related to a SQL injection attack. #SQLServer

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 is now Generally Available (GA) - with the same modern look and feel like Visual Studio 2026! #sqlserver #visualstudio buff.ly/akQKHDs

Last call! SQLTrain 2025 registration is open until November 9! If you are attending #SQLSaturday Oregon/Washington and traveling to #PASSDataCommunitySummit, why not take the train? #SQLTrain2025 is here: eventbrite.com/e/sql-train-... #SQLFamily

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Good morning! Time for a #MorningWalk

Stunning colors for my #MorningWalk

Autumn colors for my #MorningWalk

Vendor wants me to enable Named Pipes

The sun shines on my #MorningWalk

I'm actually putting this meme in my presentation for tomorrow

The sunshine is back for my #MorningWalk

I feel this is the right time to remind everyone that MongoDB is webscale

Today's #MorningWalk under the rain

Gray sky is not enough to make my #MorningWalk less enjoyable

Beautiful sky on the vineyards of Conegliano

The leaves are changing colors #MorningWalk

Great day for a #MorningWalk

🚨 It's another two-for-Tuesday over in the SSMS team! Announcing the release of SSMS 22 Preview 3 and SSMS 21.6! SSMS 22 Preview 3 includes: - GitHub Copilot in SSMS - ARM64 support for core SSMS scenarios Start with Makena's post: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserv... Enjoy! 👯‍♀️

Beautiful weather for a #MorningWalk

Good morning from the hills of Conegliano

Back to my beloved hills after a fantastic #DatasatHolland A big thank you to organizers and helpers. See you next year!

Wired: you're the first to board the plane Tired: the cabin stinks of vomit

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Introducing 'SQL Project Power Tools' - create, import, diagram and analyze SQL database projects in Visual Studio buff.ly/bqxUxJZ #sqlserver #visualstudio #database

Some of my friends are trying to save a nuclear plant in Belgium from being closed by a French gas company. It provided 25% of all power in the country. Low carbon.

Gangs of youths are organizing themselves and creating needless Javascript frameworks. I'm glad that action is being taken to stop it at the source 😂

New blog post live! In part 3 of the deep dive into hash tables, I will show you how to use our knowledge of the structure of the hash table to identify hash collisions from looking at query results. #SQLServer sqlserverfast.com/blog/hugo/20...

The hills of Conegliano

Time for a #MorningWalk

The palmrest of my Dell XPS 13 become sticky and uncomfortable to use. The whole laptop is built around the palmrest, so replacing it means disassembling and re-assembling the whole laptop. Who thought that material was a good idea??

It's time for a #MorningWalk

New Blog Post: Deep Dive into TDE Key Management for Database Restore techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azuresq... #AzureSQL #TDE #CMK #DataSecurity #EncryptionAtRest

Learn about ordering, grouping, and segmenting in #SQLServer execution plans, in the latest set of videos in the SQLServerFast Execution Plan Video Training. Over 2 hours and 40 minutes of content, for just $89.95 (until September 15). sqlserverfast.com/blog/hugo/20...

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Almost time for my session on time series databases at #DataScotland! Join me in room 2 at 16:15

Changing the default for encrypt from "optional" to "mandatory" in dotnet connection strings is probably the worst decision of the decade and it's been annoying everyone since day one

Beware .NET devs: SqlConnectionStringBuilder in Microsoft.Data will understand all connection string keys in System.Data, but will create connection strings using the keys understood only by Microsoft.Data. 🤦‍♂️

IHOP has banned Italy from accessing its website. Or maybe Italy has banned IHOP. Who knows

In Alaska, genocide became “diplomacy.” War crimes became “peace talks.” Child-killers became “partners.” Putin didn’t just get legitimacy in Alaska. He got proof the West has abandoned truth itself. Our editorial: euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/16/e...

Text is Ukrainian but I mean, clean hit

This piece by @garymarcus.bsky.social is - as usual - spot on: garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-over...