Louis Davidson in Blogs LLM Technical Editor Test – ChatGPT with a VERY wrong article As started in part 1 of this series, I have set out to test an LLMs ability to technical edit.... 16 April 2025 17 min read
Lukas Vileikis in Blogs Announcing Database Frontiers: a Database Conference You Haven’t Yet Heard About Database Frontiers is a new database conference hitting the spotlight come October 15th, 2025. Here’s everything you need to know.… 15 April 2025 3 min read
Louis Davidson in Blogs New Series – Testing LLMs as Technical Editors I spend a lot of editing articles from various authors about a wide variety of topics. I do my best... 14 April 2025 6 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Query Performance Analysis in Lakehouses You may have already discovered the 4 special views the lakehouse has in the queryinsights schema to track query performance.... 09 April 2025 4 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Fabric Database: Advanced Vector Search Features A few weeks ago, I delivered some sessions about vector search in Fabric Databases and Azure SQL. Let’s talk about... 02 April 2025 6 min read
Ben Johnston in Blogs Managed Instance Gotchas – Error Conditions I was recently on a project to migrate a very transactional installation of SQL Server to Azure SQL Managed Instance... 31 March 2025 9 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Fabric: Query a SQL Endpoint from a Notebook Let’s analyse why we would like to query an SQL Endpoint. Once we understand why, we can dig into how... 26 March 2025 5 min read
Louis Davidson in Blogs Simple Talk on the Road In March The holidays truly are over, and it is time to hit the road again here at Simple Talk. In March... 06 March 2025 3 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs How Shortcuts affect Lakehouse’s Maintenance I wrote about lakehouse maintenance before, about multiple lakehouse maintenances, published videos about this subject and provided sample code about... 05 March 2025 3 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Fabric Databases Connection Secrets Fabric Database was a great announcement during Ignite Conference. The announcement spread all around, a great new feature. This feature... 19 February 2025 4 min read
Ben Johnston in Blogs SQL Server 2022 CU Updates and Error Code 0x851A0043 I’ve been working in the Azure space for the last few years and less with full server installations. Azure leaves... 18 February 2025 5 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Analysing Kusto Query Performance In Fabric We already discovered how to investigate Kusto query history. Let’s discover how to analyse query performance considering the information on... 06 February 2025 6 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs SQL Endpoint Secrets you need to know Recently I had a severe problem with SQL endpoints and I was required to build a quick workaround for this.... 29 January 2025 5 min read
Louis Davidson in Blogs Weekly Blogging I spent a few weeks away from the office in early January, just like last year, mostly on vacation. Something... 27 January 2025 3 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Azure SQL Serverless: Discover What’s new and Increase Your Savings Before jumping into the news and code, let’s start from the beginning: Why does someone use Azure SQL Serverless? The... 22 January 2025 3 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs Fabric Copy Job: What’s new in it At first sight, the new Copy Job may seem only one more redundancy: Why do we need this? We have... 15 January 2025 2 min read
Lukas Vileikis in Blogs I Wrote a Book on How You Broke Your Database – Here’s Why You Should Read It This blog introduces the book "Hacking MySQL: Breaking, Optimizing, and Securing MySQL for Your Use Case" by Lukas Vileikis.… 10 January 2025 7 min read
Microsoft Fabric Dennes Torres in Microsoft Fabric High Concurrency Data Pipelines in Fabric Data Pipelines can orchestrate many activities, creating a flow for data ingestion. One of these activities is the notebook execution... 08 January 2025 2 min read
Ben Johnston in Blogs A Use Case for Memory-Optimized Tempdb Metadata I recently had an interesting production SQL Server issue that turned out to be very easy to fix. The fix... 08 January 2025 10 min read
Dennes Torres in Blogs T-SQL Tuesday #181: Query Store and its evolution Query Store. This is my choice in relation to “What feature release made you say WOW!”, the subject of this... 09 December 2024 4 min read
