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...
Andrew Pruski 🏴 🇮🇪
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Principal Field Solutions Architect @ Pure Storage Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Docker Captain I help organise EightKB and Data Céilí He/Him
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?
New blog post... EightKB 2026 schedule and registration EightKB is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! dbafromthecold.com/2026/06/15/e...
EightKB 2026 – Schedule and Registration
Hello 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 …
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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 is back!
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EightKB@eightkb.online · 2mo agoEightKB 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
Kube-PacMan...a KubeInvaders inspired Chaos Enginnering tool to test high availability in Kubernetes!
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
Speaker here just said anyone who does live demos is a maniac Guess I'm a maniac!
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
New blog post - Visualising vectors in high dimensional space #sqlserver #sql2025 #ai #vectors dbafromthecold.com/2026/04/17/v...
Ireland's continuing lack of awareness of the presence of global far-right influence/activism in Ireland literally keeps me awake at night
Margaret E. Ward@margareteward.bsky.social · 4mo agoOh boy.
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
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...
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...
To everyone at Data Saturday Chicago, thank you so much! Hope my session was useful!
About to do the first public presentation on The Burrito Bot! Oh I hope this all works...
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...
Absolute madness I love the six nations #SCOvFRA
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.
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 - 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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Wooooo I've created a web app in Azure that's so secure no-one can access it
"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...
