If you own a business application, you’re accountable for its uptime, its cost, and its performance, even if you’ve never opened SQL Server Management Studio in your life. But most guidance out there is written for DBAs, not for the people who actually make decisions about the app.
This webinar on Sept 16 is different. We’ll walk through real findings from real SQL Server environments — the kind of things that quietly cause slow page loads, failed backups, and surprise outages — and translate each one into what it actually means for you: What did it cost? What was the risk? What would you have needed to ask your team (or your vendor) to catch it sooner?

Does the Job Matter To You?

by Andy Warren

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

How important is your job to you? Today's guest editorial from Andy Warren asks the question of the professionals out there, some of whom do great work, but don't care about their jobs.

GENERATE_SERIES() Breaks Minimal Logging

by Jeff Moden

SQLServerCentral

tl;dr The title says it all. Prologue One of the keys to my personal learning is that, very early in my database career, I taught myself how to make lot’s of rows of Random Constrained Data in a comparatively short time. With the help of a few good folks over time, the method has been […]

JSON indexing in SQL Server 2025: how it works and current limitations

by Additional Articles

SimpleTalk

Uncategorized

This guide has everything you need to know about JSON indexing in SQL Server 2025: what it is, how it works, and current limitations.

Looking for New Blood

by Grant Fritchey

SQLServerCentral

Uncategorized

You may not be old, but I sure am. As I travel around to all the different conferences to speak, whether we're talking a dev conference, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL, one of the topics that keeps coming up is age. The age of the organizers. It's mostly the same people putting on events for the […]

Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization vs. Parameter Sniffing: What SQL Server Fixes and What It Doesn't

by vgupta

SQLServerCentral

See how SQL Server's Parameter Sensitive Plan optimization handles skewed parameters, how to verify dispatcher plans, and where PSP still falls short.

The End of Summer

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

Work environment

It's the first week of September, but Steve sees it as the end of summer. It's a time to catch up on things.

How to avoid nested REPLACE functions with TRANSLATE in SQL Server

by Additional Articles

SimpleTalk

This guide covers how TRANSLATE() works, how it compares to REPLACE(), and where it falls short compared to other SQL dialects like PostgreSQL and Oracle.