50 Years of Microsoft
Steve looks back at his history with Microsoft and asks what your memories are of using their products.
2025-04-25
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Microsoft
Microsoft SQL announcements at PASS Data Community Summit 2024
Read a summary of the data platform announcements from Microsoft at the PASS Data Community Summit 2024 last week.
2024-11-18
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Do You Want a Microsoft Solution?
Today Steve wonders if official solutions from a vendor are that important.
2024-11-15
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2024-11-06
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Microsoft at the PASS Data Community Summit 2024
Learn about the Microsoft sessions at the 2024 PASS Data Community Summit from Bob Ward.
2024-10-28
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Microsoft return to PASS Summit 2024 as Sapphire sponsor
Get ready to meet Microsoft's experts on-site in the exhibit hall and in multiple educational sessions (including a pre-con, keynote and learning pathway). Watch a sneak peek of Microsoft's learning pathway 'Becoming an Azure SQL DBA – Advancing the Role of the On-Premises SQL Server DBA'
2024-09-18
Microsoft at the PASS Data Community Summit 2023
Microsoft will be presenting a number of sessions at the PASS Data Community Summit 2023. Read about their plans for the event and register to come if you can.
2024-05-14 (first published: 2023-11-03)
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AI Thoughts on the Build Keynote
Today Steve has a few thoughts, and links, from the Build Keynote last week, which featured AI technology.
2023-05-26
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2023-04-29
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New Cloud Licensing Limits
New licensing rules are coming for using your SQL Server licenses in the cloud.
2022-09-03
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Blogs
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Has the PK been used --
You're analyzing a query execution plan in SQL Server to determine whether the query optimizer chose to use a primary key index. Which Dynamic Management View (DMV) would you use to verify the usage of the primary key in the plan?
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