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 […]
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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 […]
Real-time Data Streaming in Snowflake
Real-time data ingestion has become essential for modern analytics and operational intelligence. Organizations across industries need to […]
[Video] Office Hours: Speed Round!
Not all of y’all’s questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento require long, thought-out answers. Let’s do a speed round: Here’s what […]
Don’t Let Your Kids Drop ACID.
We’re heading towards graduation time. In just a few short months, your high school kids are going to […]
Techniques to query Azure SQL’s new JSON Datatype
The new JSON field type and new functions in Azure SQL brings a new world of possibilities […]
SQL Server Cursor Example
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Jacksonville SQL Saturday 2025 Roundup
Are SQL Saturdays finally back to the way they should be? This past weekend in Jacksonville Florida […]
Who’s Hiring in the Microsoft Data Platform Community? May 2025 ...
Is your company hiring for a database position as of May 2025? Do you wanna work with the […]
MySQL Index Overviews: Hash Indexes
Welcome back to the MySQL indexing series! We’ve already covered the nuances surrounding indexes in MySQL as […]
Data-Based Movie Reviews: Moneyball
A while back, a friend of mine, who is big into baseball, tried to encourage me to […]
Free Webcast Tomorrow: Mastering Index Tuning
This is it: the very peak of my free SQL Server Spring Training webcast series. I’ve been teaching […]
Understanding MERGE to Insert, Update, and Delete Data Simultaneously
Introduction In modern database management, data synchronization plays a critical role in processes like data warehousing and ETL […]
Query Lineage in Fabric Lakehouses
I already wrote about query performance analysis in lakehouses, but one secret was left behind: The capability […]
Return stored procedure parameter values to a calling stored procedure
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Modern Streaming Architecture Serverless Pool with Spark Streaming
Introduction Many high-volume data sources, including sensors, logs from mobile applications, and the Internet of Things, operate in […]
Announcing Our Anniversary Sale!
Back in May 2001 when I first registered BrentOzar.com, I never would have dreamed how things would go. […]
Purging Data from a Large Table in SQL Server
Purging data from a table is a common database maintenance task to prevent it from growing too […]
[Video] Office Hours: Hot Dog Fingers Edition
I strapped on my Apple Vision Pro, updated its OS, and recaptured my persona with the latest updates, […]
SQL Server 2022 Finally Fixed a SQL Server 2008 Query ...
For yeeeeeears, when I’ve explained execution plans, part of my explanation has included the instructions, “Read the plan […]
Working with the MongoDB Database Tools
This article is part of Robert Sheldon’s continuing series on Mongo DB. To see all of the […]