Techorama 2025 – Slides
You can find the slides for my session Building the €100 data warehouse with the Azure Data Platform on GitHub.
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2025-05-26
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Blog Posts
SQL Inventory Dashboards: From Raw Data to Real Insight
Tired of inventory headaches? Stock shortages and gluts don't just cause stress; they cost you. Good news: an SQL-powered product inventory dashboard puts you firmly in control of stock...
2025-05-25
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Free SQL Practice: 9 Killer Resources to Boost Your Query Skills
So, you want to get your SQL skills razor-sharp without dropping any cash? You're in the right place. I’ve pulled together a list of the absolute best free SQL...
2025-05-24 (first published: 2025-05-23)
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Uninstall PolyBase from SQL Server
If you have SQL Server 2019 or SQL Server 2022 installed with PolyBase and you try to install SQL Server 2025, it will fail during...
2025-05-24
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Advice I Like: Take Two Trips
If you have any doubt about being able to carry a load in one trip, do yourself a huge favor and make two trips – from Excellent Advice for...
2025-05-23
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DevOps Devour Hour Slides
Here are the slides from my talk today at the Redgate NYC Devour Hour: Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments.pptx The Repo is here: https://github.com/way0utwest/ZeroDowntime An interesting question on feature toggles:...
2025-05-23
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Solar-Powered, Proxmox-Driven: A Tour of My Ultimate SQL Server Home Lab
Back in 2018, I wrote a blog post about my Home Lab environment, which I had built around VMware vSphere to showcase various SQL Server workloads and demonstrate how...
2025-05-23 (first published: 2025-05-12)
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What’s new in SQL Server 2025 CTP 2.0
Three years ago, when the first public preview of SQL Server 2022 (CTP 2.0) was announced, I was a few months in at the SQL Docs team, and had...
2025-05-23 (first published: 2025-05-19)
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Do Yourself a Favor, Check Out Woodler
I recently was privileged to speak at SQLDay in Wroclaw Poland… man, I love visiting Poland… Anyway… Great event. Worth your time to attend, and if you’re a speaker,...
2025-05-22
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Microsoft Build announcements
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and AI, and some were very impressive. Below are my favorites. Everything announced at Build can...
2025-05-22
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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
In Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many geo-replicas can be created?
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