Query Store, Forced Plans, and New Plans
I love questions. I recently received one about new plans in the Query Store (available in Azure SQL Database now and in...
2016-05-23 (first published: 2016-05-16)
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Use The Correct Data Type
Blog post #5 in support of Tim Ford’s (b|t) #iwanttohelp, #entrylevel. Read about it here.
Saying that you should use the...
2016-05-18 (first published: 2016-05-12)
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Implicit Conversion and Performance
Letting SQL Server change data types automatically can seriously impact performance in a negative way. Because a calculation has to be run...
2016-05-03
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How to Convince the Boss to Send You to PASS Summit
August two years ago I originally posted, Make the PASS Summit Work for Your Employer. After conversations at several SQL...
2016-05-02
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Customizing Your Azure Portal
Not all of us are going to use Azure in the same way. That’s just common sense. Therefore, not all...
2016-04-27
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Microsoft’s Commitment to Azure
For several years, many of us who were involved with working in Azure from the early days, were concerned that...
2016-04-21
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Payment and the Board
If you read the March PASS Board meeting minutes, you saw that there was a discussion around board members and...
2016-04-20
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A View Is Not A Table
Blog post #4 in support of Tim Ford’s (b|t) #iwanttohelp, #entrylevel
In SQL Server, in the T-SQL you use to query...
2016-04-19 (first published: 2016-04-12)
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Query Store and Optimize For Ad Hoc
I love presenting sessions because you get so many interesting questions. For example, what happens with Optimize for Ad Hoc...
2016-04-11 (first published: 2016-03-28)
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Views and Simplification
I’ve been getting lots of questions on views lately. Must be something in the water.
Because SQL Server allows you to...
2016-04-05
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Blogs
Microsoft announces new cybersecurity AI multi-model
By Brian Kelley
Yesterday, July 27, 2026, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity effort called Project Perception. Included...
Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running
By Steve Jones
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...
Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits III
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