Building a SQL Server Fleet Audit That Leadership Actually Reads
Learn how to build a report that shows the health of your database estate that your leadership will read and use.
2026-10-07
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Articles
“But NOLOCK won’t hurt me if I’m using an index!”
NOLOCK is bad and you probably shouldn't use it, but every time I mention that publicly, the pushback just keeps coming. I don't know why people so firmly believe that their situation couldn't possibly be affected by bad/random data from NOLOCK.
2026-10-07
Take the 2027 State of the Database Landscape Survey
Share your view on the database landscape and you could win USD$500.
2026-10-07 (first published: 2026-09-28)
Split Large Queries in Athena with a Simple Modulo Trick
Learn how you might balance the load in Amazon Athena when you have large partition windows.
2026-10-05
1,490 reads
Using Friendly Names for SQL Servers via DNS
At my organization, servers have a very cryptic name or a name where you can’t immediately tell the function. For instance, Amazon is the name of the SQL Server which our SharePoint uses as a back-end and Nile is the SQL Server hosting the databases for our HR application. This isn’t intuitive and it makes upgrading the servers a challenge because we always have to go back and touch the applications
2026-10-05
Optimized Locking in SQL Server 2025
Learn about Optimized Locking in the latest versions of SQL Server and Azure SQL Database.
2026-10-02
2,766 reads
How to mirror data from SQL Server to Microsoft Fabric: complete guide
Learn all about Microsoft Fabric mirroring for SQL Server: how it works, what's new in 2025, setup, limitations, and troubleshooting
2026-10-02
Database Animations: Stop Using Page Splits to Justify Lowering Fill Factor.
You're looking at page split numbers in a monitoring tool or Perfmon, and you've heard that page splits are bad, so you're lowering fill factor, expecting your page splits to go down.
2026-09-30
Parameter Sniffing on SQL Server 2025: A Walkthrough with Real Numbers
This article looks at how the parameter sniffing performance problem can be helped in SQL Server 2025 with PSPO.
2026-09-28
2,545 reads
Why SQL Server’s default trigger execution model is a security flaw – and what Microsoft should do about it
The situation raises a question I’ve been thinking for a while: why does SQL Server allow trigger code to inherit the privileges of whichever principal happens to fire it?
2026-09-28
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The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
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RegEx Functions IV
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers