SQL Art: I Made a Christmas Card In SSMS

A little Christmas fun for you using the spatial features in SQL Server and SSMS.

What's Your Theme Music?

Steve asks what theme music you would pick for your next presentation.

Custom Statistics Distributions in SQL Server 2022

You can create custom statistics distributions, sampling, and histograms in SQL Server 2022 with a new trace flag

Wargames

CosmosDB APIs Inside SQL Server 2024

New enhancements in SQL Server 2024 will allow MongoDB and Cassandra clients to store their data in a SQL Server database, in native NoSQL format.

The AI Puzzle

Santa Fun

Why Haven’t You Disabled SA? Wrong Answers Only.

On social media, I asked folks, “Why haven’t you disabled the SA account in your SQL Servers? Wrong answers only.” The results were pretty funny:

Which Thursday is the Holiday?

The Top 5 Technologists

There's a common party question about which 5 people would you invite to a dinner party? Often this is amended to include living or dead people, and it's often interesting to hear people tell you who they'd invite and why. Since most of the people reading this work in technology in some way, I was […]