In every organization there is a hidden currency more valuable than capital, more enduring than strategy, and more transformative than technology. That currency is feedback. Leaders who learn to...
2025-10-22 (first published: 2025-09-29)
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Update for SQL Server 2025:
This post and the GitHub repo have been updated for SQL Server 2025 RC1 and Ubuntu 24.04.
New in SQL Server 2025: You no longer need...
2025-10-27 (first published: 2025-09-29)
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Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions today at SQL Saturday Boston 2025. I’ve got resources listed below Slides Here are the slides from my two sessions Running a...
2025-09-27
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SQL Server 2025 introduces native support for vector data types and external AI models. This opens up new scenarios for semantic search and AI-driven experiences directly in the database....
2025-10-20 (first published: 2025-09-27)
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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...
2025-09-26
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The slidedeck and the SQL scripts for the session Indexing for Dummies can be found on Github.
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2025-09-25
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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....
2025-09-25
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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...
2025-10-15 (first published: 2025-09-24)
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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...
2025-10-17 (first published: 2025-09-24)
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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...
2025-10-17 (first published: 2025-09-24)
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By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
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On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?
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