DBA From The Cold

One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups.

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Next up in my series talking about The Burrito Bot is diving into the different distance metrics used to calculate how a vector generated from a query compares to the vectors stored in the database.

Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to delve into visualisation of vector embeddings that were generated from the restaurant data pulled from Google Maps.

A while back I posted about a couple of side projects that I’ve been working on when I get the chance.

EightKB is back again for 2026!

A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in Visual Studio Code…they make presenting (and generally working) in Visual Studio Code really smooth.

I was messing around performing investigative work on a pod running SQL Server 2025 in Kubernetes the other day and noticed something…the sqlservr process is no longer PID 1 in its container.

Data Céilí 2026 Call for Speakers is now live!

Following on from my last post about Getting Started With KubeVirt & SQL Server, in this post I want to see if I can improve the performance from the initial test I ran.

With all the changes that have happened with VMware since the Broadcom acquisition I have been asked more and more about alternatives for running SQL Server.