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Speaking at Live! 360

I am super excited to announce that I have been selected to speak at SQL Server Live! in Orlando in November. I have selected to present two sessions, which...

2023-07-03

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A New Word: Licotic

licotic – adj. anxiously excited to introduce a friend to something you think is amazing – a classic album, a favorite restaurant, a TV show they’re lucky enough to...

2023-06-30

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Azure chaos STUDIO

Chaos engineering is fun but especially important when building solutions in the cloud. It is great leveraging the cloud to build something, whether that’s a globally distributed website with...

2023-06-28 (first published: )

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SQL Server is Slow, part 3 of 4

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In parts 1 and 2 of this series, we’ve gathered info and done the...

AI Model Size, Parameters and Download

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At SQL Saturday Boston 2025, I gave a presentation on local LLMs and there...

SplashFlag - Building an IoT Swimming Notification Device from Scratch

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After setting up dozens of Internet of Things (IoT) smart home devices, I started...

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caught off guard by some greek lettering in a warehouse feed

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Hi we run 2019 standard.   Our warehouse's ssis based etl is klunky but so...

Unlocking High-Concurrency Inserts in SQL Server with OPTIMIZE_FOR_SEQUENTIAL_KEY

By Chandan Shukla

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Vector Datatype

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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Vector Datatype

The new Vector datatype in SQL Server 2025 is a binary type that has a few parameters. What parameters are required?

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