This year I have been speaking with an increasing number of people about FinOps and what it means. Fundamentally, it is all about getting a handle on the cost for our technology spend. When we step back and look at the bigger picture it also has ramifications on corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) programs […]
Earlier this year at SQL Saturday Austin 2025, Conor Cunningham gave a keynote that discussed the engineering efforts in the Austin office around SQL Server. One of the things he mentioned was PRODUCT(), which was written there and added to SQL Server 2025 to help with the GDP calculation for the US government. Yep, that's […]
Before SQL Server 2025, if you want to store JSON data in Microsoft SQL Server or Azure SQL DB, and you want fast queries, the easiest way is to:
Getting something done is important, but so is the quality level. Steve has a few thoughts today.
This article presents a way to discover those tables that are unused over a period of time, along with suggestions on how to get rid of these tables.
This tutorial will discuss using variables with SQL DECLARE along with various examples.
Learn about filtered indexes in SQL Server, how they work, and how they can help improve performance.
Today Steve tasks data modeling and wonders how many people still build and maintain models.
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In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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