Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
Learn how we can search text values in SQL Server 2025 using the new AI capabilities.
Common SQL Server Problems: Invalid Object Name
Learn why SQL Server shows ‘Invalid object name’ errors and how to fix them.
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: Encoding Functions
Learn about these new binary encoding and decoding functions in SQL Server 2025.
Where Your Value Separates You from Others
Many of us aspire to be senior level professionals at some point in our careers, but what separates us from others? Steve has a few thoughts today.
Generating Shape Bound Random Points in SQL Server
Random number generation is vital in computer science, supporting fields like optimization, simulation, robotics, and gaming. The quality, speed, and sometimes security of the generator can directly affect an algorithm’s correctness, performance, and competitiveness. In Python, random number generation is well-supported and widely used. In this article, we will look how to we can use SQL to do this.
Using Python notebooks to save money in Fabric: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
In this next article, we look at how notebooks using Python can be cheaper than Spark notebooks.
Let’s Build a Better KILL. What Do We Need to Consider?
When there’s a performance emergency, a lot of us perform the same manual tasks over and over. We run sp_BlitzWho or sp_WhoIsActive, look for blocking, long-running or out-of-control queries, and kill them.
Loading a Database for USD$5
See how Claude Code helped load a lot of messy data into a database for less than $5.
Minimally Viable Security
Today Steve talks about the need for a basic level of security in our software.
Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
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My Social Media Rules
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Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
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