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In this post, we continue our AI journey with SQL Server 2025 (Preview). In previous articles, I already showed how to call the GPT-4o chat-completion model in Azure directly from SQL Server to generate product descriptions, how to create and store embeddings for semantic search, and how to use the (preview) acceleration features for semantic search workloads. If you want…
By one of our Customers, I have to use Qualys to patch their production SQL Server instances. And to be more precise the Qualys Patch Management application which provides a solution to manage vulnerabilities and deploy patches to secure and keep assets up-to-date.I will use the job functionality of Qualys Patch Management to automate the patching based on a specific…
When performing search operations on large datasets, performance is a key consideration for ensuring that an application remains efficient and user-friendly. This consideration equally applies when working with embedded data. That’s why in this blog post we’ll explore the different possibilities for vector search and show how to leverage the latest features of SQL Server 2025 Preview to accelerate your…
In this Blog we will continue with our AI journey in SQL-Server 2025 preview. If you didn’t read the first Blog you’ll find it here: dbi Blog In this article, we will explore the concept of data embeddings, a key concept for modern AI-driven applications and platforms. We will then examine the latest capabilities introduced in SQL Server 2025 (preview)…
The evolution of AI is booming and brings many new possibilities to enhance efficiency and convenience with many different use cases. While AI chatbots have had an almost revolutionary influence in recent years, we are now entering the next phase of this evolution with context-aware AI assistants and autonomous AI agents that will have even more impact. Providers of modern…
The client’s environment includes two SQL Server instances (I1 and I2). One of the databases, D1 (on I1), is replicated to I2 via transactional replication. Additionally, the tables in this database are partitioned. The largest table (which is the one of interest) is approximately 350 GB in size and contains around 800 million rows. This table represents transactions. The client…
Within the past few days I was investigating one of the new features of SQL Server 2025: Optimized Locking. I was curious about the capabilities, the behaviour and as well the limits of the feature. Optimized Locking is based on two primary components: Here we have the transaction ID working as a unique identifier for a transaction. Each row which…
Within the past few days I was investigating another new feature of SQL Server 2025: OPTIMIZED_SP_EXECUTESQL. I was curious about the capabilities and the behaviour. OPTIMIZED_SP_EXECUTESQL is a database scoped configuration which allows us to get rid of the overhead of compiling and producing execution plans when we deal with dynamic SQL. The first user-session which launches a given dynamic…
A contained availability group is a special availability group which manages its owns logins, users, permissions, jobs… with a dedicated master and msdb system databases, more information here.At a customer place we found some unexpected “login failed” for the group managed service account in the SQL Server logs. The source of the issue is coming from a PowerShell script executing…
After the new connectivity and drivers landing page for SQL Server with .Net, Java, Python, C++, Go and PHP languages, you have a new landing page for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ssms You will see 6 parts in the main panel: If you have a look on the left menu, you will find more like Copilot in SQL…
After my blogs about “SQL Server 2025: Local SQL Server Container without Docker Command” and “SQL Server 2025: Local SQL Server Container – Schema compare preview”, I continue to play & test it. One new feature in preview is the “Schema Design compare” in this last MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code: Let’s start and see on a database (db2…
After my blog about “SQL Server 2025: Local SQL Server Container without Docker Command”, I continue to play & test it. One new feature in preview is the “schema compare” in this last extension for Visual Code: I like new feature and now let’s go for a test! 😉 I create 2 identically databases db1 & db2 with 2 tables…
