Calling APIs directly from SQL Server has been available in Azure SQL DB since 2022, but now it's available in on-prem in SQL Server 2025...

Calling an API has been in Azure SQL since 2022, but it was only recently added to SQL Server 2025 Preview. This new feature...

When managing large databases or high-transactional databases, the performance of your underlying storage system is crucial, whether it...

Recently, one of my clients was experiencing performance issues with their SQL Server. Although the server was not underpowered from a...

A step-by-step guide to installing SQL Server 2025 Private Preview.

If you have SQL Server 2019 or SQL Server 2022 installed with PolyBase and you try to install SQL Server 2025, it will fail during...

How many of us have created a new table and used the default and first data type nvarchar for all of the text/alphanumeric fields, or had...

Creating a data warehouse can be challenging. Identifying the grain is one of the most important parts of having a quality data...

Since I first used Azure Data Factory, I looked for the 'disable' option on an activity, and it wasn't there! I quickly went to the ideas...

We have a date and are planning SQL Saturday Jacksonville's 15th Anniversary event! Since my recent but late post on how we ran SQL...

2022 is the first year post PASS and the SQLSaturday.com website containing the tools created by PASS for SQL Saturdays. So, I wanted to...

A new way to create the SpeedPass for SQL Saturday Events.

Recently I encountered a Microsoft SQL Server with relatively high and very consistent CPU usage with few peaks and valleys. When...

Over my years consulting, I've done quite a few performance tests for clients using DiskSpd (formally SQLIO), and I usually manually...

Bottom line? Don't use it! At least don't use it for a SQL cluster directly. Recently I stumbled on a configuration using S2D (Storage...

For VLDBs I've always created multiple files for each file group and had to set the trace flag 1117 on to ensure that all files grow at...

In this article, we will cover the specific steps to restore a set of TDE keys and a database to a new and or different server. This...

I recently performed an analysis of some data I pulled from my Octopus Deploy database using PowerBI Desktop. The reports I created,...

Click here to download the SQL Server PowerBI Template - OctopusDeployCloud.pbt (https://bit.ly/2ZAKLUr) Once you have downloaded the...

Click here to download the SQL Server PowerBI Template - OctopusDeploySQLServer.pbt (https://bit.ly/2C9iuvf) Once you have downloaded the...