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Learn how we can search text values in SQL Server 2025 using the new AI capabilities.
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Learn why SQL Server shows ‘Invalid object name’ errors and how to fix them.
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Learn about these new binary encoding and decoding functions in SQL Server 2025.
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Random number generation is vital in computer science, supporting fields like optimization, simulation, robotics, and gaming. The quality, speed, and sometimes security of the generator can directly affect an algorithm’s correctness, performance, and competitiveness. In Python, random number generation is well-supported and widely used. In this article, we will look how to we can use SQL to do this.
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In this next article, we look at how notebooks using Python can be cheaper than Spark notebooks.
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When there’s a performance emergency, a lot of us perform the same manual tasks over and over. We run sp_BlitzWho or sp_WhoIsActive, look for blocking, long-running or out-of-control queries, and kill them.
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See how Claude Code helped load a lot of messy data into a database for less than $5.
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Sometimes we cannot improve query performance because we don’t have control over the code. Consider a query that is generated by Entity Framework (EF) from the application and you do not have access to the source code. The main question is how you can improve SQL Server query optimization for a poorly performing query?
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In this article, I will provide a set of examples to show case the use of OUTPUT clause for INSERT and DELETE statements.
2026-01-02 (first published: 2017-05-25)
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How can I change the location in which the SQL Server error log is written in SQL Server 2025?
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