SQL Automate – A DBA’s Time-Saving Toolkit
Introduction Installing SQL Server can be a very boring and time consuming task, especially when you have to […]
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Index Scans and Table Scans
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Oracle ASM: A Simple Solution or Another Complexity? (part 1)
For highly performant Oracle databases, the storage must be scalable, resilient, and easy to manage—especially as infrastructure […]
[Video] Office Hours in the Detroit Airport
I’m in the Detroit airport today, en route home after a client gig. I’ve got some time to […]
Query Exercise: Return Routes in the Right Order
I’mma be honest with you, dear reader: this query exercise stems from a client problem that I couldn’t […]
Performing a Bulk Insert in SQL Server
Learn how to use the BULK INSERT command to import large data sets into SQL Server.
Managing Fabric Lakehouse objects with the new CLI: Data Engineering ...
Microsoft Fabric has been evolving since its general availability in November 2023. Developers have asked for a command […]
Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Database Community? June 2025 Edition
Is your company hiring for a database position as of June 2025? Do you wanna work with the […]
MySQL vs. PostgreSQL: Date and Time Data Types
Date and time data types are important because they help track and manage time-based information in databases. […]
DMV Comparison for SQL Server 2019 vs Azure SQL Database
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Parameterize Connections in Microsoft Fabric Data Factory using Variable Libraries
When you create a data pipeline in Microsoft Fabric, you typically use one or more connections. A connection […]
Moving from SQL to MongoDB’s MQL
This article is part of Robert Sheldon’s continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the […]
Power BI Mistakes to Avoid – Part 2
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Sentiment Analysis & Key Phrase Detection
Recently I worked on a neat little POC with Patrick Leblanc for a customer in Education who wished to […]
Using Parameters with DAX in Report Builder
This is something we expect to be simple, but it has a lot of secrets. Using parameters […]
Running a MySQL database in a Docker Container
Relational databases provide a structured approach for storing and organizing large volumes of data into tables consisting […]
[Video] Office Hours: Recovering from a Cold Edition
While recovering from a nasty cold, I took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 […]
Review: SSMS Copilot vs Other AI Tools
I use AI tools constantly in my work, so when the new SSMS v21 came out with Copilot support, […]
Our Anniversary Sale Ends This Week!
Back in May 2001 when I first registered BrentOzar.com, I never would have dreamed how things would go. […]
DISTINCT and UNION: What happens when you use them together?
When I was perusing my LinkedIn feed the other day, I came across this thread about using […]
Free Webcast Tomorrow: Mastering Server Tuning
This is it: the very peak of my free SQL Server Spring Training webcast series. I’ve been teaching […]
Top 5 Power BI Common Pitfalls
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Introduction to GitHub Actions Part 2: GitHub-hosted runners
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Data Encoding Schemes
You probably noticed that when you get a bill or bank statement, it uses the current modern […]
How SQL Server 2025’s Optional Parameter Plan Optimization Works
About three years ago, SQL Server 2022 introduced Parameter-Sensitive Plan Optimization (PSPO). At the time, I explained that […]
SQL Server Developer Standard Edition: A Gift to Developers!
This article is part of a series of posts on the forthcoming SQL Server 2025 release. Once […]
How I Configure SQL Server Management Studio v21
Several years ago, I wrote a post about how I configure older versions of SQL Server Management Studio, […]
SQL Server 2025 is in Public Preview!
On Monday, May 19, 2025, SQL Server 2025 was announced as finally going to be in public […]
SQL STRING_AGG Function Use and Examples
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New Objects in SQL Server 2025 – And Thousands of ...
The first public preview of SQL Server 2025 dropped yesterday, and here’s what’s new under the hood as […]
How to Migrate Data to a New SQL Server Database
This guide demonstrates how to efficiently migrate existing data, including data from SQLite, into a SQL Server database.
SQL Server 2022 on Ubuntu 24.04 step by step
Microsoft does not yet support this edition of Ubuntu, but there are some workarounds to make it […]
First LLM Technical Editor Test – Office and Web-based Copilot ...
Next up, I am going to give Microsoft Copilot its chance to check for technical inaccuracies in […]
Fabric Is Just Plain Unreliable, and Microsoft’s Hiding It.
Last week, Microsoft Fabric went down yet again for hours on multiple continents. Oh, you didn’t hear about […]
Helpful Management Studio Settings and Features
Working with SSMS can sometimes be quite frustrating, but there are many options provided to make your day […]
Securing the DevOps Pipeline Part 2: Hardening Kubernetes and Cloud ...
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What are the Key DevOps Performance Metrics You Should Track?
Successful DevOps teams rely on data-driven decision-making to continuously improve software delivery and operational performance. Understanding the […]
How to Safely Remove a SQL Server Data File Without ...
Introduction Removing SQL Server Data File Without Downtime is one of important activities in enterprise production scenarios. Managing […]
SQL ASCII Function Use and Examples
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[Video] Office Hours at the Hoover Dam
Dam! I took your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento without making any dam or beaver puns. Rather proud of […]
MySQL Shell Basic Configuration Management (Part 4 – Optimizing MySQL ...
Welcome back to our journey of understanding MySQL performance tuning using MySQL Shell. So far, we’ve covered […]
Predicting When SQL Server Will Hit the CPU Wall
Most of the time, we use wait stats to identify SQL Server’s bottleneck and focus on what to […]
Introduction to PostgreSQL for the Data Professional
Learning something new has elements of bliss and terror. We all know the bliss of learning something […]
SQL ConstantCare Badges
SQL ConstantCare™, our monitoring app that gives you a simple daily email with actionable tasks to make your […]
Managed Instance Gotchas – Configuration Items
In my last post I described issues that might stop your migration to a SQL Server Managed […]
Recovering data in SQL Server without full backup
In more than 10 years of experience, I have dealt with cases where someone has performed incorrect […]
Free Webcast Tomorrow: Mastering Query Tuning
This is it: the very peak of my free SQL Server Spring Training webcast series. I’ve been teaching […]
Evaluating the Randomness of SQL Server Random Number Functions
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Parent – Child Task Automation in Snowflake via Task Graph
In the fast-paced world of business, fast, effective data management is crucial. One of the places where […]
Date and Time Calculations Made Easy with EOMONTH, DATEDIFF, and ...
Working with dates in SQL Server is something almost every developer runs into. You might need to figure […]