Adding the Right Value
Are you doing the things at work that your boss cares about or the things you care about? Steve has a few thoughts on this.
How to Load a Fabric Warehouse: Data Engineering with Fabric
In this next level, learn how you can load data from Amazon S3 in Fabric.
SQL Server OPTION RECOMPILE for Simple Queries
Learn about SQL Server OPTION RECOMPILE and if used on simple, frequently executed queries if it causes excessive CPU usage.
The Rise of Data Centers
There is still a huge demand for data centers, both from cloud vendors and private enterprises.
Data Documents and Common Sense
What can be so difficult in creating a sensible standard for Structured Data Documents? To understand why they tend to get improved into unusable complexity, I’ll need to explain a bit of background.
Leveraging the “STUFF” Function for Enhanced Data Representation and String Manipulation
Learn the basics of the T-SQL STUFF command.
Improved RCSI Ghost Cleanup in SQL Server 2022
An example of poor update performance under RCSI as compared with locking read committed. Details of an improvement in SQL Server 2022 that can help avoid the worst effects.
DAX For SQL Folks: Part I- Intro to DAX, Power BI and Data Viz
In this first article, get an introduction to DAX, it's uses, and the basics of a DAX query as compared to a T-SQL query.
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Can You Let Go of Determinism
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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