Ad Hoc SQL Server Help
I just need a few hours of your time… We get a variation of this request a LOT. So now it’s time to do something about it! Ad Hoc...
2026-03-02
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Blog Posts
AI: Blog a Day – Day 2: Generative AI, Multimodal Systems, and Agent AI
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family, today on Day 2 i would like to discuss what came next after Generative AI...
2026-03-02
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Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server 2025 Unleashed Training Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, March 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server 2025 Unleashed: AI, Performance & Beyond will take place! This hands-on training is designed to help DBAs,...
2026-03-02
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Generate INSERTs the new 26ai way
Six years ago(!) I did an Office Hours session where I demonstrated a little routine that would let you generate more efficient INSERTs by converting a standard INSERT-VALUES into...
2026-03-02
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RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently about this and decided to explain it to myself, but in a slightly different way....
2026-03-02 (first published: 2026-02-18)
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TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on SQL Server performance and everything temporary / memory spill comes to tempdb and it is...
2026-03-02
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Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog and i would like to start a “blog a day” series. i have been continuously...
2026-03-01
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A New Word: on tenderhooks
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which makes you feel that much more rooted to the world, even if the roots belong...
2026-02-27
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INSERT-VALUES – Bigger is NOT always Better!
One of the super cool features in 26ai is the ability to extend the VALUES clause in your INSERT statements to allow multiple rows per execution. If you’re unfamiliar...
2026-02-27
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Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in Visual Studio Code…they make presenting (and generally working) in Visual Studio Code really smooth. But...
2026-02-27 (first published: 2026-02-20)
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Blogs
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
SQL Server Security Hardening Guide Using the DoD STIG Checklist
Security on your SQL Server is important. That doesn’t need any explaining. But where...
EightKB 2026: Registration is Open!
It’s that time of year again! EightKB is back on August 20th at 13:00...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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