The Grafana Alternative to SSRS and Power BI
Learn how you can use Grafana natively inside SQL Server Reporting Services.
2026-04-01
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Articles
How to migrate from on-prem to the cloud: uncovering legacy system ‘skeletons’
In this article, Pat Wright explains how to identify hidden risks in legacy applications before moving to the cloud. It features practical advice and guidance to avoid migration failures and surprises.
2026-04-01
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_OBJECTAGG
Learn about the new JSON_OBJECTAGG function in SQL Server 2025.
2026-03-30
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SQL Server Data Warehouse Concepts, Schema Design, and Implementation
Companies generate a huge amount of data on a daily basis from such things as sales transactions, inventory changes, and customer interactions. This data originates from different data sources and is stored in operational databases called OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) systems that primary focuses on transactions like data inserts, updates or deletes. Maintaining the transactional data in an OLTP database is important. However, if you need to analyze or report on the data, storing the data in a centralized repository in well-structured schema is necessary.
2026-03-30
Using PostgreSQL as a NoSQL Store and a Search Engine
Introduction We mostly get inclined to use/introduce MongoDB for JSON storing/processing in our database system and Elasticsearch for searching operations in JSON data. However, what we often tend to overlook is that in reality, PostgreSQL can actually act as both NoSQL store and a powerful search engine too. It also comes with ACID guarantees, transactions, […]
2026-03-27
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What’s New in SSIS 2025?
There’s a new version of SQL Server released and we’re mainly an on-premises SQL Server shop. We’ve been using Integration Services (SSIS) for years now for all our ETL and data integration needs. With Microsoft’s focus on cloud (Azure and Fabric), does it make sense to upgrade our SSIS packages? Are there any new features?
2026-03-27
Seeding a Fabric Warehouse with dbt for Visual Studio Code: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
In this next installment, we look at using dbt to seed a Fabric Warehouse.
2026-03-25
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What are database keys? A practical guide
There’s not much to database keys, right? When you build a new table, you add a column to act as the primary key, then set it to auto-generate. Done. That’s all there is to know…right?
2026-03-25
Vectors in SQL Server 2025
Introduction SQL Server 2025 introduced new features, including vectors. The main purpose of vectors is to create a new semantic search with the help of AI. Modern AI models represent text as vectors (embeddings) that capture semantic meaning. Similar meanings produce vectors that are close to each other in this vector space, allowing AI systems to […]
2026-03-23
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SQL Server Concurrency Issues with Parallel Query Plans
Parallelism can reduce concurrency. This is a strong reason not to allow SQL Server to execute queries aggressively in parallel mode. In this tip, I will set up a demo to show that parallelism reduces query performance on a server with high concurrency.
2026-03-23
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Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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