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...

Cool. We finally just took off about 5 minutes ago

Thank you! Good seeing you this week

Hope you got underway. We're just boarding now. Almost 3 hrs delayed this far

Thank you!

#sqlselfie #sqlfamily #passdatasummit

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Sitting at the airport while waiting for the delayed flight seems like the perfect time for the #sqlselfie photo dumps for Day 2 & 3 of #passdatasummit

#sqlfamily

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Day 2 of #passdatasummit! I'm presenting twice today:

* Hobby Huddle at 1 PM in the Community Zone (ROBOTS!)

* Answering the Auditor's Call with Automation at 4:15 in room 447

TODAY IS THE DAY! The WIT Luncheon at #PASSDataSummit is excited to have Mridula Pandit as our keynote speaker presenting:
Unpopular, Unapologetic: The Superpower of Being 'Not Special'.
#DATAWIT data-platform-wit.sh...
Check to see if there are spots left!

#sqlselfie photos from last night. Too busy chatting to share at the time...

#sqlfamily #passsummit #passdatasummit there is no welcome reception tonight as far as I can tell. If you want to go to a large gathering make sure you go to the networking event at 5:00

Look who we found for #sqlselfie: @alevyinroc.flxsql.com, @datacourt.bsky.social, @steveclementjax.bsky.social , Amy, Rob, Scott, and @sqlbek.bsky.social

##passsummit #passdatasummit

#sqlselfie with @sqlr.bsky.social, Scott, @bweissman.bsky.social, Amy, @reviewmydb.bsky.social

#passsummit #passdatasummit

Unpopular, Unapologetic: The Superpower of Being 'Not Special'.
#DATAWIT is excited to have Mridula Pandit, our keynote speaker, presenting the WIT luncheon this year at #PASSDataSummit. data-platform-wit.sh...
Don't forget to reserve your spot!

Makes me happy to see these traditions continue! See you all soon

Glad to hear my post was able to give you some inspiration! Cheers!

Join me in wishing @dgmelkin.bsky.social a very Happy Birthday today!!!

Data Saturday Chicago 2026: Call for Speakers Data Saturday Chicago is a community event for anyone interested in the Microsoft Data Platform. This event is for the data community, by the communit...

Data Saturday Chicago 2026 call for speakers is now open! Would you like to present a session? Submit your abstracts now!

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Data Saturday Chicago 2026! Data community events in Chicago have returned!

Very excited to announce Data Saturday Chicago 2026 will be held on March 14, 2026!

bobpusateri.com/2025/07/data...

*taps mic* Check it out - Data Saturday Chicago is coming!!!

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A picture of a presentation slide in a lecture hall with people under it, showing the title and a dog in upper right corner

Kicking off @dataceili.bsky.social with @sqlbek.bsky.social, @dgmelkin.bsky.social, and Sebastian

SQL Server 2025 – New Backup Magic 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 sur…

Tested out the new ZSTD backup compression in SQL Server 2025. Was pretty impressed with the output so wrote a quick blog to share the test results. Am quite impressed with the effective throughput/speed improvements!

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Practical AI in SQL Server 2025: Ollama Quick Start 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.…

With the #SQLServer2025 announcement, wanted to share a Quick Start step-by-step guide to getting Ollama running on your local PC, that'll get you up and running quickly to play around with Vector Search functionality!

sqlbek.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/o...

Our first joint, in-person presentation!

Hey fellow bloggers! There's still plenty of time to put together a quick blog, sharing your thoughts on mentoring, and contribute to this month's #tsql2sday!

Women’s History Month provides a time for the individual and collective acknowledgement of women’s contributions, past and present. We want to pay tribute by posting a quote each day that honors the women in our lives. Join us!

Day 1.
Octavia Butler: "It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up."

Am looking forward to debuting this joint session with @dgmelkin.bsky.social. Hoping it'll be a lot of fun!

Let's try to give this place another go around.

Glad that there's a "mute words" function to help filter to maintain my mental sanity.

Here, enjoy a #SebastianTheDog photo. #SomethingPositive

A menorah lit for the first night of #Hanukkah is on a black table. In front of it are two bowls of Chinese food. Behind the table, Sebastian the dog is held up so you can't see who's behind him.

Happy 1st night of #Hanukkah from me, @sqlbek.bsky.social, and #SebastiantheDog