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Azure SQL offerings

There are three Azure SQL products with so many different deployment options, service tiers, and compute tiers that it can get quite confusing when choosing the right option for...

2025-03-03 (first published: )

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Top 10 Careers in Data

Would you re-order these? Machine Learning Engineer $$$$$ Develop and deploy AI models Optimize machine learning algorithms for efficiency Work with big data frameworks to process large datasets Data...

2025-02-28 (first published: )

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T-SQL Tuesday #183 Roundup

I hosted this month’s T-SQL Tuesday party with my invitation asking about tracking permissions. I didn’t get my own post completed in time, but I’ll add it in the...

2025-02-28 (first published: )

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The Mysterious Empty Table

It seems like no matter how long you work with a system beyond a trivial size, you’ll find something new every so often. A little while ago, I found...

2025-02-26 (first published: )

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PostgreSQL: Diagnosing and Fixing a Sequential Scan with No Filter Predicate

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A sequential scan is not always a problem — PostgreSQL's planner often chooses one...

Giving AI Agents Visibility Into SQL Server with MCP

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