How To Call Microsoft Graph API From SQL Server
Calling APIs directly from SQL Server has been available in Azure SQL DB since 2022, but now it's available in on-prem in SQL Server 2025...
2025-07-03
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Blog Posts
Speaking Engagements 2025
It’s been a minute since I’ve gotten out to speak at events, but the second half of 2025 is going to be packed.
2025-07-03
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ADF: Publish suddenly includes everything where it used to be incremental changes since the last publish
I recently encountered an interesting issue with ADF where the publish feature suddenly attempted to republish every single object, claiming they were new, despite having incrementally published changed objects...
2025-07-02 (first published: 2025-06-15)
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PASS Summit on Tour in New York City
The PASS Summit goes on tour this year, with an August stop in New York City. This is the first event in the series, and I’m excited to go...
2025-07-02
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SQL Server Agent Jobs: Set It and Forget It?
Useful tips to make your jobs more stable Too many IT teams treat SQL Server Agent jobs like a coffee timer “Set it and forget it!” Unfortunately, that mindset...
2025-07-02 (first published: 2025-06-11)
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SQL Server Errorlog: Not Just for Errors!
A Goldmine of Clues You Might Be Ignoring SQL Server’s Error Logs often get overlooked, until something breaks. But if you know how to use them, they can tell...
2025-07-02
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Ethics, Productivity, Age and AI:How do these correlate with Developers’ Stances Towards AI at work, 2024
AI is deemed to be the new superpower. Adoption of AI in various capacities is at 72% across industries, world wide, according to one study, and it does not...
2025-07-01
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How To Call APIs From SQL Server
Calling an API has been in Azure SQL since 2022, but it was only recently added to SQL Server 2025 Preview. This new feature...
2025-07-01
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Salesforce CDC Data Integration
(2025-June-30) Working with different abbreviations or acronyms can speed up communication, but at the same time, it can exclude those who are not familiar with them. Sometimes this exclusion happens...
2025-07-01 (first published: 2025-06-30)
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EightKB 2025 – Schedule and Registration
Hello Hello, We. Are. Back! The schedule for EightKB 2025 Edition has been announced! We’re kicking off at 1pm UTC on August 21st…here’s the schedule: – N.B. – If...
2025-06-30
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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Risk Vs Reward, The never ending ROI discussion.
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Hyperscale Replicas IV
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The SQL Server Date Magic: When CAST and CONVERT Keep Your Index Seek
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Hyperscale Replicas IV
In Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many geo-replicas can be created?
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