Compression was introduced in SQL Server version 2008. While it helped, the compression ratios were frequently too low to justify the...

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...

Working with large databases, multi-terabyte in size, I've had clients who have wanted to move to the cloud. However, after testing and...

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...

Today, I want to discuss a topic that has been a bit of a headache for database administrators and consultants: the changes to SQL...

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...

Recently a question came up on the various file types that would be best to load into PowerBI, so I ran a few tests to see how it would...

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

Join me for some Sun, Sand and Code in Atlantic Beach, Jacksonville, Florida for this years Code on the Beach event. I am excited to have...

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

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...

How many of us have just created a new table and put a Created Datetime and Modified Datetime field in with the default DateTime...

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,...

Recently, I started receiving multiple database filegroup growth alerts from my Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager. As this wasn't usual, I...