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Day: November 6, 2025

Running SQL against Fabric Warehouses via Python

Published 2025-11-06 by Kevin Feasel

Jared Westover builds a loop:

In a previous article, I ran a SQL script against a Fabric Warehouse 100 times without needing to click ‘Execute’ each time. A WHILE loop could work, but Query Insights treats it as a single execution. While using GO was an option, I wanted a different approach because I’m always trying to expand my skill set. I need a scalable way to run scripts for performance testing.

This is a pretty simple database connection and script execution. For the most part, it would work just fine for any other SQL Server family member, just with a somewhat different connection string depending on the product.

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Comparing Sets of Data in T-SQL

Published 2025-11-06 by Kevin Feasel

Louis Davidson figured out which of these was not like the others, which of these just didn’t belong:

There are many occasions when we want to see the differences between two sets of data. Sometimes a whole table, a subset of a table, or even the results from a couple of queries, like in a unit test.

Maybe you want to see that two sets are exactly the same, for example domain table in DEV, PROD, or maybe even from source control. You might you have a orders table and an orders_history table and you want to see the overlap/changes over a given period of time, like for example, to clean out any useless history.

No matter what the reason, there is a query pattern that will work for you. In this blog I will demonstrate several of these techniques and why you might want to use them in different places.

Click through for those techniques. I am particularly fond of INTERSECT/EXCEPT because of how it handles missing data and typically performs quite well.

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Deleting Default Semantic Models in Microsoft Fabric

Published 2025-11-06 by Kevin Feasel

Pradeep Srikakolapu says good riddance:

In our earlier announcement, we shared that newly created data warehouses, lakehouses and other items in Microsoft Fabric would no longer automatically generate default semantic models. This change allows customers to have more control over their modeling experience and to explicitly choose when and how to create semantic models.

Starting November 20, 2025, Power BI *default* semantic models are disconnected from their item and become independent semantic models.

Click through for an overview of those changes and how you can get rid of the default models you may still have hanging around.

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Exploiting Database as a Service SQL Server

Published 2025-11-06 by Kevin Feasel

Fabiano Amorim has a post-mortem of a nasty privilege escalation bug in SQL Server:

This article explores a serious flaw in this security model – a SQL Injection vulnerability in sys.sp_help_spatial_geography_histogram that allowed a standard user on managed SQL Server instances (AWS, GCP, Alibaba, Azure) to completely bypass these restrictions, gain access to privileged user data, and decrypt the source code of internal management stored procedures.

It was fixed in SQL Server 2022 CU20 (KB5063814), but this article explains how the exploit worked and the process of eliminating it.

Click through for the details and make sure your on-premises SQL Server instances are patched.

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Windows Clustering for the DBA

Published 2025-11-06 by Kevin Feasel

Sandra Delany is perilously close to running afoul of Betteridge’s Law of Headlines:

Should a SQL Server DBA know how a Windows cluster works, and or how to create a Windows cluster, or troubleshoot a cluster? Or should we, as DBAs, stay in our lane? In some organizations, a line is drawn between what a DBA can and can’t do and the System Administrator (SA) has the Infrastructure roles and responsibilities. This is fine, but that doesn’t mean a DBA shouldn’t know how to troubleshoot a FCI (Failover Cluster Instance) or AG (Availability Group) issue after an unplanned cluster-level failover.  (Yes – you can create an AG without a cluster, but that will not be taken into consideration here.)

Read on for some quick tips to get ramped up on what is available in a Failover Cluster Instance.

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