Gianluca Sartori

The vineyards of Conegliano

Beautiful day for a #MorningWalk

GitHub - jdanton/query-store-reports Contribute to jdanton/query-store-reports development by creating an account on GitHub.

if you use a Mac and use SQL Server, check this out. It's very alpha right now, but it works a little. github.com/jdanton/quer...

Sure, you might *know* the power of #SQL expressions in #Grafana...

But what does it look like in action?

We created a dashboard on Grafana Play so you can see for yourself. Give it a whirl: https://play.grafana.org/d/mapr4nb/sql-expressions-showcase?orgId=1&from=now-6h&to=now&timezone=utc

Years - 4
Victories - 0
Casualties - 1,260,000🌻
Coups -1
Ruble -💩
War crimes -♾
NATO -🇫🇮&🇸🇪
Goodwill gestures - 🤷
Warships -Submarines
Submarines -Sub marine
Aircraft - 🚀💥
Refineries -🔥🦩
Raccoons -1🦝
Tankies - 😭
Tanks -🚜
Red lines - ➡️

I remain a master strategist

It’s been four years today. People in Ukraine are still fighting and dying to defend the rest of us from russian aggression.

Every day, Russia uses cruise missiles and UAVs to target civilian infrastructure like hospitals and powerplants.

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

All fingers of all limbs crossed

Italy is always a bit behind the curve so maybe it's getting worse and I still can't see it...

It's always been like that for many different reasons: the cloud, AI, grasshoppers...

It comes and goes in cycles. AI is not the cause of any of this

That's one valley away. Let them clean up ;)

The dolomites covered in snow

No #MorningWalk today

Over the past two months, I’ve been diving deep into agentic coding with tools like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. It’s incredible to witness how rapidly software development is evolving - and just how much leverage you can gain when you use these tools intentionally.

It starts to look like spring indeed

The Alps covered in snow

Beautiful day for a #MorningWalk

Quickstart - Azure Container Apps - SQL MCP Server Learn how to deploy SQL MCP Server to Azure Container Apps and connect it to Azure AI Foundry agents. Step-by-step guide with Azure CLI deployment steps.

If you're trying out the SQL MCP quickstart, make sure you change the Dockerfile to use data-api-builder:1.7.81-rc instead of the shown data-api-builder:1.7.83-rc. The latter seems broken: 81 works.
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...
#SqlServer
#MCP
#AzureSql

Fog on the hills

Foggy day on the hills of Conegliano

SSMS 22.3 Release SSMS 22.3 is now available and includes bug fixes, improvements, and support for database instructions for GitHub Copilot in SSMS.

Announcing database instructions and a lot of fixes in SQL Server Management Studio 22.3

buff.ly/nd8mDSf

#sqlserver #ssms #database #azuresql #data #dba

Optimized Locking part 1: Transaction ID Locking - SQLServerFast SQL Server 2025 introduced Optimized Locking. Not one, but two features, sharing a single marketing name. Transaction ID (TID) Locking One of these two features is Transaction ID (TID) Locking. Slated...

My new vlog is live. Time to look at Optimized Locking in SQL Server 2025.

What is Transaction ID Locking? What problem does it solve, how does it work, and what are the limitations? Find out here!

sqlserverfast.com/blog/hugo/20...

Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2025 (KB5075211) - SQL Server This article contains the summary, known issues, improvements, fixes, and other information for SQL Server 2025 Cumulative Update 2 (KB5075211).

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2025 CU2. It is Build 17.0.4015.4.

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubl...

#SQLServer #SQLServer2025

Data Saturday Chicago – One Month Away! It’s been a hot minute since we (the organizing team) announced Data Saturday Chicago, and I can’t believe it’s a month away! If you haven’t signed up yet, the team would lo…

#DataSaturdayChicago is coming up sooner than we realize. Here’s @sqlbek.bsky.social‘s post about all the reasons you don’t want to miss it: sqlbek.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/d...

Experience: I am the Excel world champion I have been called the LeBron James of spreadsheets, but I try not to take myself too seriously

Experience: I am the Excel world champion

ChatGPT free tier just analyzed 1 GB of cluster logs for me, got me my answer in less that a minute. Color me impressed

Storage structures 2 – Columnstore - SQLServerFast Update February 4, 2026: I have updated this post with new information, about deleted bitmaps, and about the delete buffer for nonclustered columnstore indexes. In the first part of this series, I des...

I discovered that my blog post about columnstore indexes missed crucial information about the delete buffer for nonclustered columnstore indexes, and that I had gotten a little something wrong about the deleted bitmap. And so, I just updated that post.

sqlserverfast.com/blog/hugo/20...

Children's books should have a list of characters at the start, along with suggested voices or accents. I don't want to get two-thirds of the way through a book I'm reading for my daughter before I discover that I should be doing a Scottish accent for one of the characters.

SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for February 2026

New blog post: SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for February 2026

glennsqlperformance.com/2026/02/02/s...

#SQLServer #SQLServer2025

As of this morning, I am on the job market, #OpenToWork, or however that is designated here. 🙂 I’m immediately looking for a new position, and my DMs are open. Thanks network!

I don't really know what to say... I like my feet dry. Maybe it's a me thing...

My title slide "Questioning my SQL Server faith - so you don't have to"

It's time for my session at #DataSatDenmark! Join me in room 106 to discuss the future of databases!

Ha! If only Chris Taylor was on bluesky... 😂

*talking