I am not much for working in languages other than English. That's my native language and I know little about others. However, the last few years I find myself using emojis more and more in quick communications as they seem to add some fun to the interaction. And those interactions need to be stored in […]
2025-12-05
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SQL Server 2025 and .NET 10 bring several new improvements to storing JSON natively in the database and querying it quickly.
2025-12-05
Security in cloud environments is both challenging and fascinating, particularly for Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offerings like Amazon RDS, GCP CloudSQL and Alibaba ApsaraDB RDS. The cloud vendor acts as the system administrator, managing the operating system, patching, and backups, while the user manages their data and databases.
2025-12-03
Create your own test lab on Hyper-V to evaluate SQL Server 2025 and Windows Server 2025
2025-12-01 (first published: 2025-09-19)
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Learn about the critical 823 and 824 errors in SQL Server and how to deal with them in this article.
2025-12-01
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How can we build a random number generator using Marsaglia Polar method in SQL Server without the use of external tools?
2025-12-01
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 […]
2025-11-28
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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:
2025-11-28
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.
2025-11-26 (first published: 2025-10-15)
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This tutorial will discuss using variables with SQL DECLARE along with various examples.
2025-11-26
By James Serra
Organizations increasingly want Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric to coexist without duplicating data or fragmenting...
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In a previous post, I deployed a model to a database using SQL Compare...
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If I have a fillfactor set to 70%, this reduces my page density to roughly 70%. Does this affect the query plans that the optimizer chooses?
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