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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Jeff Taylor
How To Test SQL Server Disk IO Throughput
When managing large databases or high-transactional databases, the performance of your underlying storage system is crucial, whether it...
2025-06-18
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Are Your Disks Lagging?
Recently, one of my clients was experiencing performance issues with their SQL Server. Although the server was not underpowered from a...
2025-06-17
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New Azure VMs that perform close to on-prem servers?!
Working with large databases, multi-terabyte in size, I've had clients who have wanted to move to the cloud. However, after testing and...
2025-06-12
20 reads
Cloud Provider Outage!
Your Cloud Provider is experiencing an outage! Your websites and databases are all down! When local data centers were the primary source...
2025-06-12
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Getting Started with SQL Server 2025 Public Preview: A Step-by-Step Installation Guide
A step-by-step guide to installing SQL Server 2025 Private Preview.
2025-06-04
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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
132 reads
SQL Server Autogrowth Settings Changes
Today, I want to discuss a topic that has been a bit of a headache for database administrators and consultants: the changes to SQL...
2024-02-01
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Testing Microsoft Fabric - Part 4
After several discussions with the Microsoft team and chatting with Sunil Sabat about the testing I was conducting, the conclusion was...
2024-01-03
18 reads
Testing Microsoft Fabric - Part 3
Sorry to disappoint you. In this post, we won't test Microsoft Fabric directly. We will compare Azure Data Factory (ADF) to Microsoft...
2023-11-30
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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...
Forums
Risk Vs Reward, The never ending ROI discussion.
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Risk Vs Reward, The never...
Trigger isn't working
Hi, I have a trigger, that works fine elsewhere but is not working at...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas IV
In Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many geo-replicas can be created?
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