How To Call APIs From SQL Server
Calling an API has been in Azure SQL since 2022, but it was only recently added to SQL Server 2025 Preview. This new feature...
2025-07-01
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How To Test SQL Server Disk IO Throughput
When managing large databases or high-transactional databases, the performance of your underlying storage system is crucial, whether it...
2025-06-18
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Are Your Disks Lagging?
Recently, one of my clients was experiencing performance issues with their SQL Server. Although the server was not underpowered from a...
2025-06-17
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Cloud Provider Outage!
Your Cloud Provider is experiencing an outage! Your websites and databases are all down! When local data centers were the primary source...
2025-06-12
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New Azure VMs that perform close to on-prem servers?!
Working with large databases, multi-terabyte in size, I've had clients who have wanted to move to the cloud. However, after testing and...
2025-06-12
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Getting Started with SQL Server 2025 Public Preview: A Step-by-Step Installation Guide
A step-by-step guide to installing SQL Server 2025 Private Preview.
2025-06-04
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Uninstall PolyBase from SQL Server
If you have SQL Server 2019 or SQL Server 2022 installed with PolyBase and you try to install SQL Server 2025, it will fail during...
2025-05-24
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SQL Server Autogrowth Settings Changes
Today, I want to discuss a topic that has been a bit of a headache for database administrators and consultants: the changes to SQL...
2024-02-01
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Testing Microsoft Fabric - Part 4
After several discussions with the Microsoft team and chatting with Sunil Sabat about the testing I was conducting, the conclusion was...
2024-01-03
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Testing Microsoft Fabric - Part 3
Sorry to disappoint you. In this post, we won't test Microsoft Fabric directly. We will compare Azure Data Factory (ADF) to Microsoft...
2023-11-30
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Checking the Error Log II
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