Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference

A bunch of new features for Microsoft Fabric were announced at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon Vienna) recently. Here are all the new features that I found most interesting, with...

Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework

I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates HammerDB benchmarking for SQL Server using Docker. If you’ve ever needed to run TPC-C or...

Cloud Data Driven User Group 2025 – Slides & Scripts

The slidedeck and the SQL scripts for the session Indexing for Dummies can be found on Github.
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Connect with your SQL Community on Slack

Slack is a popular tool for team interaction. To describe it quickly, it's a feature-rich persistent chat room, with threads,...

Leading Through Change: Guiding Teams in Times of Uncertainty

Change is not a disruption in technology; it is the rhythm. New frameworks appear, markets shift, customer expectations evolve, and entire strategies can be rewritten in a single quarter....

Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server

Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server

Not long ago, a colleague of mine was completely shocked when he first heard about SQL Server’s Batch Mode feature. His immediate...

The Challenge of Implicit Transactions: #SQLNewBlogger

I saw an article recently about implicit transactions and coincidentally, I had a friend get caught by this. A quick post to show the impact of this setting. Another...

The Mystery of the Locked-Up Database -Scooby Dooing Episode 6

No Scooby-Doo story is complete without footprints leading to a hidden passage. In SQL Server 2025, those footprints point us straight toward the next big feature: optimized locking. And...

How to Avoid Knowledge Stagnation

You want the short answer? Well, the only antidote to knowledge stagnation is probably embracing the habit of lifelong learning. For the long-winded answer, read on. Have you ever...

How to Install SQL Server 2025 RC0 on an Azure VM

I wanted to try out the new JSON index which is for the moment only available in the SQL Server 2025 preview version. I know, it’s not even available...