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Matt Gordon @sqlatspeed.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Join us today for the brain-melting fun!

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EightKB @eightkb.online · 20/08/2026

Today is the day! EightKB 2026 edition kicks off at 1pm UTC We have 5 amazing mind-melting sessions for you today! Not registered? Left it until the last minute? Not a problem! Registration is still open and completely free: - eightkb.online

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Infokomposter Spongebob: Old Age Transformation

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 19/08/2026

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

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 07/07/2026

Definitely plan to expand it at some point...might start with a couple smaller places though!

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 07/07/2026

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 · 26/06/2026

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?

A large ocean wave crashing with text asking why the ocean always has waves.

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 14/06/2026

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!

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 09/06/2026

Ahh it's close enough to summer for it not to be hailing!

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 28/05/2026

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

Pac-Man being used as a chaos engineering tool to test high availability in Kubernetes

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 28/05/2026

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

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 21/05/2026

My session is in 30 minutes...first thing I'm going to do is shout "I am a maniac" Although the topic is databases in kubernetes so they probably already figured that 🤣

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 21/05/2026

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

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 25/04/2026

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

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 17/04/2026

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 · 11/04/2026

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 · 09/04/2026

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

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 07/04/2026

Hey there, thanks for the offer! I'm all good though, rolled my site back to before the install and it's all good now.

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 27/03/2026

Ah yeah I fully admit this is a ridiculous use case but I had to find some data to demo and restaurant review data is perfect for this type of search

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 27/03/2026

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...

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 26/03/2026

Ok I think my blood pressure is back down to normal after that

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 26/03/2026

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

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 26/03/2026

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

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 26/03/2026

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

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 26/03/2026

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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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 18/03/2026

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...

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 14/03/2026

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

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 13/03/2026

Can't make tonight. Getting to the location would be tight on time and we're fairly shattered...will be nice and fresh for tomorrow!

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 13/03/2026

Just managed to land, bit of a bounce but we're down! See you tomorrow fella!

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 12/03/2026

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

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Rob Sewell He/Him @robsewell.com · 10/03/2026

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...

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Squidge Rugby @squidgerugby.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

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 · 04/03/2026

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.

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GitHub - jdanton/query-store-reports: Visual Studio Code Extension for Query Store Functionality

Visual Studio Code Extension for Query Store Functionality - jdanton/query-store-reports

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Andrew Pruski 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 @dbafromthecold.com · 24/02/2026

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

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