Each year around this time, companies enter the familiar ritual of budgeting. For many, it feels like a long and exhausting negotiation between ambition and constraint. Everyone knows, it...
2025-12-15 (first published: 2025-12-02)
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One feature that I have been waiting for years! The new announcement around optimize CPU for RDS SQL Server is a game changer because it lets you right-size vCPUs...
2025-12-15 (first published: 2025-12-11)
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Superheroes and saints never make art. Only imperfect beings can make art because art begins in what is broken – from Excellent Advice for Living Interesting advice for living...
2025-12-12
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Day 1 is an absolute thrill at re:Invent! I normally dedicate this dynamic day to connect with new faces, explore the bustling expo hall, engage with customers and service...
2025-12-12 (first published: 2025-12-02)
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Following on from my last post about Getting Started With KubeVirt & SQL Server, in this post I want to see if I can improve the performance from the...
2025-12-11
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Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files?
xp_delete_file doesn’t really have a built-in dry-run option to preview which files it would remove. But there’s a simple workaround,...
2025-12-10 (first published: 2025-11-27)
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Announced at Microsoft Ignite two weeks ago were many new product features related to the data platform. Check out the Major announcements and Book of News. I went through the many announcements and picked...
2025-12-10 (first published: 2025-12-02)
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This month Mike Walsh hosts T-SQL Tuesday. It’s been quite some time since he hosted (back at #4), but he answered my call for hosts and I appreciate that....
2025-12-09
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I was chatting with the product managers at Flyway and one asked me whether I’d seen the new tab for Automation in Flyway Desktop. I hadn’t and decided to...
2025-12-09 (first published: 2025-12-08)
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I can’t believe it’s finally here! A way to have Excel live in OneDrive and access it from Power BI nearly live! We can officially short cut files to...
2025-12-09 (first published: 2025-12-05)
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2025 exposed a growing gap between AI ambition and operational reality. As budgets tightened...
By John
When organizations migrate workloads to Azure, the focus is usually on architecture, performance, and...
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
I am using ssrs in visual studio 2022, I work on a report, there...
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If I create a multiple column Primary Key constraint, what is the most number of bytes I can include in the constraint?
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