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19 Aug

Woo! @eightkb.online is tomorrow! Five amazing in-depth mind-melting sessions from expert speakers...Registration is still open and as always, completely free. Come join us tomorrow @ 13:00 UTC eightkb.online

7 July

Had a great time on MVP Unplugged talking about how to use the AI features of SQL 2025 to build my Burrito Bot! #sqlserver www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Hg...

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Wikipedia

@wikipedia.org

26 June

Yes, the moon controls the tides and the wind makes waves. But why are there waves even on calm days with no wind nearby? Why do they arrive in sets?

dbafromthecold.comEightKB 2026 – Schedule and RegistrationHello Hello, We. Are. Back! The schedule for EightKB 2026 Edition has been announced! We’re kicking off at 1pm UTC on August 20th…here’s the schedule: – N.B. – If you click …

15 June

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

14 June

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.onlineEIGHTKB - The SQL Server Internals ConferenceA virtual MS Data Platform conference focusing on SQL Server internals.

11 June

EightKB is back!

EightKB@eightkb.online

EightKB is back in summer 2026! On August 20th, at 13:00 UTC, we have five incredible speakers delivering deep dive sessions. From accelerated database recovery to vector compression, EightKB is back to deliver mind-melting content...for absolutely free! Click here for details... eightkb.online

9 June

Summer in Dublin!

28 May

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

28 May

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

21 May

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

25 Apr

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

21 Apr

Off to @sqlbits.bsky.social !

17 Apr

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

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy

@fhayesmccoy.bsky.social

11 Apr

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

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Justin Bird 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@justinjbird.com

9 Apr

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

27 Mar

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...

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I know I know, my fault for using wordpress but haven't had any issues in 13 years...but this is a big one

getting the site reverted now...so it looks like it's going to be fixed REALLY did not want to have to manually go through all my posts and fix 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...

I've got the formatting back but all characters like < > " ' have been changed to html entities (")

18 Mar

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...

14 Mar

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

13 Mar

On our way over to Data Saturday Chicago!

12 Mar

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

13 Mar

Haha, it all worked....phew

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Rob Sewell He/Him

@robsewell.com

10 Mar

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...

7 Mar

Still adding to the stickers

@squidgerugby.bsky.social

7 Mar

Absolute madness I love the six nations #SCOvFRA

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Squidge Rugby

7 Mar

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.

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Joey D'Antoni

@joeydantoni.com

4 Mar

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.

github.comGitHub - jdanton/query-store-reports: Visual Studio Code Extension for Query Store FunctionalityVisual Studio Code Extension for Query Store Functionality - jdanton/query-store-reports

27 Feb

Woooooooooooo!

24 Feb

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

21 Feb

Great performance by Ireland!

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MIT Press

@mitpress.bsky.social

21 Feb

"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...

20 Feb

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

13 Feb

Winter Olympics > Summer Olympics

10 Feb

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

5 Feb

Oh yay, the Six Nations has started

2 Feb

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)

sessionize.comData Céilí 2026: Call for SpeakersData Céilí 2026 is a free, in-person event focusing on the MS Data Platform taking place in Dublin, Ireland.Pre-cons taking place on the 11th of June ...

31 Jan

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

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way0utwest

@way0utwest.bsky.social

30 Jan

#sqlserver CU issues with DB Mail have been fixed:

linkedin.comUPDATE: We now have new packages for SQL Server 2022 CU23 and SQL Server 2025 CU1 for this problem. https://lnkd.in/gKwd96xQ and https://lnkd.in/gY_dEExq have all the details. You can install these…...UPDATE: We now have new packages for SQL Server 2022 CU23 and SQL Server 2025 CU1 for this problem. https://lnkd.in/gKwd96xQ and https://lnkd.in/gY_dEExq have all the details. You can install these if you have already uninstalled or you can also install these onto the existing older SQL 2022 CU23 and SQL 2025 CU1 to update them. There is guidance in each article.

28 Jan

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

boginjr.comBooting from a vinyl record – BOGIN, JR.

24 Jan

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

23 Jan

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

dbafromthecold.comData Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers!Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers is now live! Data Céilí (pronounced kay-lee), is Ireland’s free, community led, Microsoft Data Platform event. We had a fantastic event this year so…we&#8217…

22 Jan

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...