5 Reasons You Should Hire Richie Rump Today.
We’re discontinuing our apps (not the First Responder Kit scripts, just the apps), which means I’m laying off […]
Archives du mois : juin 2026
The complete guide to XML support in MySQL and PostgreSQL
This article explores how MySQL and PostgreSQL handle XML data differently, including storage behavior, validation, XML querying, […]
Get Your Blog Posts Ready for T-SQL Tuesday #200. Here’s ...
Way back in December of 2009, Adam Machanic published a blog post (archive) in which he invited database […]
Announcing New Live Online Classes! Save 50% to Celebrate.
I used to run live online classes all year round, and I really miss it. I’ve had such […]
How I built an app just by talking to an ...
Like most of you, I’ve been using AI large language models (LLMs) at work and at hobby […]
Exposing a SQL injection vulnerability you’ve never heard of (what ...
SQL injection is one of the oldest and most well-understood vulnerability classes in software security. Most developers […]
[Video] Office Hours in a Lava Field
On a 12-hour layover in Keflavik, I pulled over my Suzuki Jimny (love these little things, and we […]
Why you should still become SQL-certified in 2026 (and how ...
It may seem that in today’s rapidly evolving landscape of AI and digital threats, becoming certified is […]
I’m Coming to the #PassDataSummit in Seattle!
The lineup for the PASS Data Community Summit Seattle event was just released,and I’m proud to share that […]
Vector search in SQL Server: VECTOR_DISTANCE, VECTOR_SEARCH, and index trade-offs
In this article, I’ll explain how to implement vector search in SQL Server using the VECTOR_DISTANCE and […]
We’re Discontinuing SQL ConstantCare and the Consultant Toolkit. Here’s Why.
About ten years ago, I sketched out an idea for a different kind of SQL Server monitoring tool: […]
How to anonymize PII in LLM pipelines (5 key techniques ...
Large language models (LLMs) and the agents built on top of them ingest everything they are given, […]
From anthropology to analytics: how to build a data career ...
Kristyna Ferris didn’t come from a traditional tech background. She studied anthropology, stumbled into data through an […]
[Video] Office Hours: Off St. Thomas
I’m at sea again, this time cruising aboard the Disney Treasure off of St. Thomas. Let’s go through […]
It’s 2026. Why are databases still failing GDPR compliance audits?
Seven years after GDPR came into force, European regulators have issued over 2,245 fines totalling nearly 5.65 […]
And Then There Was The Time RCSI Actually Made Query ...
Normally when I tell people about SQL Server’s optimistic concurrency isolation levels, Read Committed Snapshot Isolation (RCSI) and […]
Why even the best teams struggle with cloud migrations
According to Redgate’s 2026 State of the Database Landscape report, 91% of teams – no matter how […]
If You Had to Go Back On-Prem… #tsql2sday
For T-SQL Tuesday #199, Koen Verbeeck posed an excellent question: if your company moved up to the cloud, […]
Today Is the Last Day of Our Anniversary Sale!
Way back in May 2002, I posted my first blog post here. I didn’t know what it would […]
How to call an Ollama-based AI text embeddings model from ...
In the first article of this series, I explained how to install and configure Ollama to host […]
How to stop AI hallucinations in enterprise RAG systems (a ...
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) does not solve AI hallucinations. Instead, it just moves the failure point from the […]
[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Anything At Home
I’m back in the home office to take another round of the top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what […]
Looking Back On My 2018 Predictions
For T-SQL Tuesday #100, Adam Machanic’s challenge for SQL bloggers was to predict what databases would be like […]
Why migrating from Oracle is harder than anyone admits – ...
Oracle-to-Postgres migration seems simple at first, but everything changes when you hit the DBMS_* packages. The 200,000 […]
Who’s Hiring Database People? June 2026 Edition
Is your company hiring for a database position as of June 2026? Do you wanna work with the […]
Never ship a broken semantic model again: how to build ...
User-defined functions (UDFs) in Power BI let you build reusable, automated tests for your semantic models — […]
How to host an AI text embeddings model for SQL ...
When we want to use AI-based comparisons of text, via vector search in SQL Server, we need […]