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1 post published by Andy (@SQLBek) during August 2025| Every Byte Counts
1 post published by Andy (@SQLBek) during August 2025| Every Byte Counts
Welcome back to another edition of T-SQL Tuesday. This month’s blog party host is Taiob Ali, who asks “How is AI changing our careers?” Rewind a Year Ago… Had you asked me t…| Every Byte Counts
Today, I have the honor and pleasure of debuting a new presentation for MSSQLTips: A Practical Introduction to Vector Search in SQL Server 2025 (you can watch the recording here too). To accompany …| Every Byte Counts
Welcome to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday Round-Up! A few weeks ago, I sent out a call for bloggers and must say that I’m utterly blown away by the response. A whopping FORTY bloggers respo…| Every Byte Counts
2 posts published by Andy (@SQLBek) during July 2025| Every Byte Counts
On behalf of the team that brought you SQL Saturday Chicago, I am ecstatic to announce that we are returning as Data Saturday Chicago on March 14, 2026 at Harper College. Sign up to receive E-mail Updates How We Got Here Chicago has a rich history of SQL Saturday events – NINE events since 2010!!! […]| Every Byte Counts
Welcome back to another edition of T-SQL Tuesday. This month’s topic is an inspirational one, hosted by John Sterrett. John would like us to blog about what we can do to help grow the data co…| Every Byte Counts
SQL Server 2025 is on the horizon, and one of its new capabilities is support for Vector Search. To start off, I’ll confess that I was an initial skeptic about AI and its practical uses. I’m not a fan of overused blanket terms/technology and clickbait fads… NoSQL will eliminate all SQL databases… Cloud means the […]| Every Byte Counts
SQL Server 2025 Public Preview is not even a week old, but I’m impressed with another new capability that was released – a new backup compression algorithm: ZSTD. This one came as a surprise, despite being part of Private Preview, as it was only released with Public Preview. TL;DR – ZSTD Can Be Fast! Today, […]| Every Byte Counts
With the announcement of SQL Server 2025 Public Preview, hopefully you are interested in test driving Vector Search. Microsoft has already posted demo code, but it’s only for OpenAI on Azure.…| Every Byte Counts
Welcome back for another edition of T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s edition is hosted by Erik Darling and is a bit special, as instead of blogging, he’s asked us to create some video conten…| Every Byte Counts
Welcome to another edition of T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s host is Deborah Melkin, who asks bloggers to share some thoughts around mentoring. My Experiences with Mentoring Over the course of m…| Every Byte Counts
I love that, while I’ve been working with SQL Server for far too many years, that I’m still constantly learning new things, even about old aspects of SQL Server. MirrorDirectory / MIRROR TO… Wut? About a month ago, was having a conversation with a Pure Storage customer’s SQL Server backups. They were using Ola Hallengren’s […]| Every Byte Counts
