The March release of Azure Data Studio now supports Jupyter Notebooks with SQL kernels. This is a very interesting feature...
2019-04-08 (first published: 2019-03-20)
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Last week I showed you how to use WorkloadTools to analyze a workload. As you have seen, using SqlWorkload to...
2019-03-27 (first published: 2019-03-12)
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Last week I introduced WorkloadTools and promised additional posts to describe what it can do in more detail. So, here...
2019-02-26
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If you ever tried to capture a benchmark on your SQL Server, you probably know that it is a complex...
2019-02-15
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I wish I could say that every DBA has a love/hate relationship with Replication, but, let’s face it, it’s only...
2018-07-11 (first published: 2018-07-03)
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While getting a new workstation is usually nice, reinstalling all your softwares and settings is definitely not the most pleasant...
2017-12-19
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Let’s face it: column enlargement is a very sensitive topic. I get thousands of emails every month on this particular...
2017-11-15
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Three years ago, I started to work on a project called ExtendedTsqlCollector. I blogged about it multiple times here on...
2017-10-27 (first published: 2017-10-19)
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If you’re working for a big company, chances are that your IT already has a strategy and tools for dealing...
2017-09-13
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Today I was reading William Durkin‘s fine post on Presentation Mode in SSMS vNext when inspiration struck.
One of the things that...
2017-03-13
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By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Think there's a reason why this is still in preview, but have someone manage...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Query Performance...
This is a generic question. To the moderators, I wasn't sure where to place...
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
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