SQL Server 2016: The Coolest New Feature – Live Query Stats

This is the first in a series of blog posts about how great SQL Server 2016 is, and why you should...

Webinar- SQL Server 2016 - Always Encrypted / Security

Join Webinar on SQL Server 2016 - Always Encrypted / Security. Thu 2/23/2017 from 12 PM to 1 PMSQL Server has had ways to encrypt data in the past - for...

Webinar- SQL Server 2016 - Always Encrypted / Security

Join Webinar on SQL Server 2016 - Always Encrypted / Security. Thu 2/23/2017 from 12 PM to 1 PM

SQL Server has had ways to...

Azure Cognitive Services – Text Analytics API Application

[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] [UPDATED 7 JUN 2020 – ADDED NEW TEXT ANALYTICS v3.0 FEATURES!] Just last week we had the fantastic opportunity to present at Microsoft...

Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics – An API Calling Application

[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog]
Just last week we had the fantastic opportunity to present at Microsoft Ignite 2017 in...

SQL Code Guard 2.9 released

Nothing special - just signed with renewed code sign certificate, small fixes, etc
Have fun!

Wait a minute! Almost forgot.
More great news coming...

What’s a DACPAC and a BACPAC?

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

Automating DBCC PAGE – Part 3 (Is a Clustered Index physically sorted on disk?)

In several of my last few blog posts, I’ve shared several methods of getting internal information from a database by...

Reminder – SQL Saturday Chicago Precon

I just wanted to remind everyone that the SQL Saturday in Chicago is coming up, and that both Adam Machanic...

What’s in my backup file?

Restoring a backup file is pretty easy right?
RESTORE DATABASE [Test] FROM DISK = 'C:\backups\backup.bak';Ok, but what if more than one database...