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Last hour or last week, SQL Server guesses the same row count for rows newer than your stats. That's how 733 rows get a merge join.
I asked Microsoft to fix it. My proposal got the same plan as fresh stats in 14 of 15 tests. Go vote:
feedback.azure.com/d365commu…
My book, Database Administration: The Complete Guide to DBA Practices and Procedures (2nd ed) is the definitive, technology-independent guide to the modern discipline of database administration.
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Kevin Kline retweeted
My book, Database Administration: The Complete Guide to DBA Practices and Procedures (2nd ed) is the definitive, technology-independent guide to the modern discipline of database administration.
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Kevin Kline retweeted
I oppose AI primarily because I believe that people need meaningful, difference-making things to do, not a mere lifetime of recreation.
Under ASI, our endless leisure will be passed in diminished, tiresome company, since we will lack the experiences of struggle and striving that generate interesting personalities. What will there be to admire about one another, or even to say to one another?
Boredom and purposelessness, even amidst plenty, would be a recipe for great suffering.
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🚨 US LAWMAKERS ARE NOW PREPARING FOR THE AI BUBBLE TO BURST.
House Democrats have introduced a resolution opposing government bailouts for AI companies if the industry crashes.
Instead of rescuing them with taxpayer money, lawmakers want failed AI companies to go through normal bankruptcy.
And the timing is extremely concerning.
Some of the world's biggest tech companies are investing billions into AI startups that spend heavily on their products.
• Nvidia invests in CoreWeave, which buys Nvidia chips.
• Microsoft invests in OpenAI, which spends billions on Microsoft's cloud services.
• Amazon invests in Anthropic, which uses Amazon's cloud infrastructure.
Billions are moving between companies that are becoming increasingly dependent on each other's spending.
And lawmakers are raising concerns about the growing use of borrowed money by Big Tech and Wall Street to finance the AI boom.
The resolution is not law, but it shows that some lawmakers are already worried about what happens if the industry collapses.
If AI startups run out of funding, they could be forced to slash spending or declare bankruptcy, leaving their investors and suppliers facing massive losses.
And without government bailouts, a major failure could spread across chipmakers, cloud providers, banks and the broader stock market.
The biggest risk is that one major AI bankruptcy could trigger losses across an entire industry worth trillions.
Kevin Kline retweeted
I made the decision to have Democracy Docket take down its paywall through Election Day. Read it, enjoy it, share it -- all for free.
If you want to support this effort, here is how: hubs.ly/Q04CxxVy0
Join me tomorrow with #Loop1 for the live webinar - The Heart of the Stack: Deep Database Observability and Query Optimization buff.ly/zk0C4RM
#database #SQL #monitoring
Excellent #DBA best practices in this article, "Why do you have so many housekeeping jobs"? - SQLPerformance.com buff.ly/1k9mG6L
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It appears there now is an NPM package for #PowerBI Visuals which allows you to use your AI Agent to create custom visuals in your #MicrosoftFabric App! Read all the details below.
community.fabric.microsoft.c…
Kevin Kline retweeted
Stan Beaton from West Yorkshire had kept a saved voicemail from his late wife Ruby.
During a technical upgrade with his phone line, the voicemail was accidentally deleted.
A team of 11 engineers worked for three days to search backups and archived systems, successfully recovering the message despite low odds.
Sometimes, love is not found in grand gestures. Sometimes it is just hidden in one saved message.
Online spaces are captured by oligarchs and saturated with slop—and they’re exacerbating humanity’s worst impulses. It’s time to start over. buff.ly/QfAROmv
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Previously on thatJeffSmith: SQLDev for VS Code: DBA features & Color Coded connections thatjeffsmith.com/archive/20…
Kevin Kline retweeted
“The distilled model wasn’t just as good as the model+harness, it was noticeably better.”
Harnesses are evolving as models absorb general scaffolding. They still handle what’s specific to your tools, data, users, and environment.
Read #Radar article: bit.ly/481XB0p
Right and Q-day is literally any day now. It was long thought to be sometime after 2030. But researchers now say it's very, very close. #cybersecurity #postquantum
“Harvest now, decrypt later” data is being captured now in anticipation of future quantum decryption capabilities.
#IDUGNA26
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Reading: T-SQL Mistakes: Careless and Careful Write the Same Six Queries ift.tt/sKRCTUS #sqlserver
FIRST ON CBS: As President Trump boasts about how much money the U.S. oil and gas industry is making from the war with Iran, the president's personal holdings in oil and gas are now worth between $22.5 million and $81.6 million, compared with $12.6 million to $46 million at the end of 2025, according to a new report by Democrats on the Congressional Joint Economic Committee. cbsn.ws/47IN9un
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You MUST read this brilliant essay by Judge Michael Luttig: “The Final Battle for America’s Democracy”newrepublic.com/article/2151… via @newrepublic
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Heads up, @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI. Rumor reaches my ears that you're doing a stupid thing, and should stop before you damage yourselves.
I hear you've now nerfed your models so that when people try to use them to clean the spamware and spyware out of their televisions, you block that.
If you really want Chinese open-weight models and open-source projects like OpenWaldo to eat your lunch, crippling your models so that people paying expensive subscriptions can't use them for completely legitimate purposes is a great way to accomplish this.
If, on the other hand, you'd rather have a volume business, maybe stupid arbitrary restrictions that look like they have the sole purpose of protecting corporate sleazeballs aren't such a good idea.
A word to the wise should be sufficient.





















