XmlReader vs XmlDocument Performance
Recently I have been working on a project where I needed to parse XML files that were between 5mb and 20mb in size. Performance was critical for the project,...
2016-11-24
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Bert Wagner
Coffee's Variety Problem
Spaghetti Sauce Origins
During the 1970s consumers had a limited number of spaghetti sauces that they could purchase at their local supermarket. Each store-bought sauce tasted the same, developed in test...
2016-11-15
5 reads
3 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Using Entity Framework
Entity Framework (EF) is Microsoft's object-relational-mapping tool (ORM) that allows programmers to easily map database objects to C# object models. What attracts developers to Entity Framework is the automatic...
2016-04-30
5 reads
Blogs
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
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Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
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Question of the Day
Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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