In this article, Pat Wright explains how to identify hidden risks in legacy applications before moving to the cloud. It features practical advice and guidance to avoid migration failures and surprises.
Learn about the new JSON_OBJECTAGG function in SQL Server 2025.
Companies generate a huge amount of data on a daily basis from such things as sales transactions, inventory changes, and customer interactions. This data originates from different data sources and is stored in operational databases called OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) systems that primary focuses on transactions like data inserts, updates or deletes. Maintaining the transactional data in an OLTP database is important. However, if you need to analyze or report on the data, storing the data in a centralized repository in well-structured schema is necessary.
The headline says it all and Steve thinks this could be a problem in the digital world as well.
Too many people don't value their time appropriately, especially at work. If you don't, likely your boss doesn't either.
Introduction We mostly get inclined to use/introduce MongoDB for JSON storing/processing in our database system and Elasticsearch for searching operations in JSON data. However, what we often tend to overlook is that in reality, PostgreSQL can actually act as both NoSQL store and a powerful search engine too. It also comes with ACID guarantees, transactions, […]
There’s a new version of SQL Server released and we’re mainly an on-premises SQL Server shop. We’ve been using Integration Services (SSIS) for years now for all our ETL and data integration needs. With Microsoft’s focus on cloud (Azure and Fabric), does it make sense to upgrade our SSIS packages? Are there any new features?
There are a lot of tasks that DBAs and developers struggle to get done. These little things can be important, and perhaps AI can help us keep on top of them.
In this next installment, we look at using dbt to seed a Fabric Warehouse.
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Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
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This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
It’s the second tuesday of the month, which means T-SQL Tuesday time! This month’s...
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As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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