Advice I Like: Fear and Imagination

Fear is fueled by a lack of imagination. The antidote to fear is not bravery; it looks more like imagination – from Excellent Advice for Living What a neat...

Cloud Data Driven User Group 2025 – Slides & Scripts

The slidedeck and the SQL scripts for the session Indexing for Dummies can be found on Github.
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Leading Through Change: Guiding Teams in Times of Uncertainty

Change is not a disruption in technology; it is the rhythm. New frameworks appear, markets shift, customer expectations evolve, and entire strategies can be rewritten in a single quarter....

The Mystery of the Locked-Up Database -Scooby Dooing Episode 6

No Scooby-Doo story is complete without footprints leading to a hidden passage. In SQL Server 2025, those footprints point us straight toward the next big feature: optimized locking. And...

Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference

A bunch of new features for Microsoft Fabric were announced at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon Vienna) recently. Here are all the new features that I found most interesting, with...

The Challenge of Implicit Transactions: #SQLNewBlogger

I saw an article recently about implicit transactions and coincidentally, I had a friend get caught by this. A quick post to show the impact of this setting. Another...

SQL Server Is Slow – Part 2 of 4(?)

The 10-Minute Outside-In Triage Don’t Blame SQL First It’s 9:05 AM and your helpdesk lights up: “The SQL Server is down. Nothing works.” By 9:07, everyone is staring at...

Local LLM Models at SQL Saturday Boston 2025

I’m starting a long trip at Boston this weekend. I’ll be there Saturday speaking, two sessions I think. At least one. I’m excited for this session as I’ve had...

3 things you must do to start data quality management right

As a data & AI strategist who’s seen countless projects succeed and fail, I have learned that data quality management really comes down to building the right foundation from...

Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server

Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server

Not long ago, a colleague of mine was completely shocked when he first heard about SQL Server’s Batch Mode feature. His immediate...