How Implicit Transactions Hurt SQL Server Performance Without You Knowing
Introduction In the world of SQL Server performance troubleshooting, developers and DBAs often chase the usual suspects: bad […]
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Schema Design Basics for Power BI
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How to Use SQL Server Features to Cut Web App ...
A customer taps “Buy Now” on your web app. Half a second passes. The screen hesitates before the […]
How to create your custom GPT SQL Expert
Introduction ChatGPT includes custom GPTs. You can create your own custom GPT. In this article, we will demonstrate […]
MongoDB and NodeJS in action
Overview MongoDB is a popular NoSQL database used for building modern, scalable applications. In this article, we’ll cover […]
SQL Server Threats
Microsoft SQL Server is a robust relational database management system. It stores and processes sensitive data for countless […]
Deprecated but Forgotten: Why SQL Server’s Text, NText, and Image ...
Introduction These data types – TEXT, NTEXT, and IMAGE – have been part of SQL Server since its […]
Why CQRS and Event Sourcing Are Gaining Ground in High-Concurrency ...
In web app development company boardrooms, architects and engineers are debating old assumptions. Scaling up isn’t just about […]
Yet another Date Dimension
Evolution of code The thing with any bit of code that has been around for a while, is […]
Advanced SQL Server Page Forensics: Detecting Page Splits and Allocations ...
Introduction Page splits are one of those silent performance killers in SQL Server that many DBAs have heard […]
How to Access and Use Azure Key Vault Secrets in ...
When you run a CI/CD pipeline, you often need confidential values like passwords, authentication tokens, service principal secrets […]
Connect Cloud Power BI to on prem SQL Server
Power BI has the versatility that you can publish your reports to the cloud (Power BI Service) and […]
Model Context Protocol (MCP): A Developer’s Guide to Long-Context LLM ...
Large Language Models (LLMs) like Anthropic’s Claude have unlocked massive context windows (up to 100k tokens in Claude […]
How to safely and surgically restore filegroups
In all my years working with SQL Server and navigating disaster recovery scenarios, I’ve come across surprisingly few […]
MongoDB and Python in action
Overview As a part of this article, we will learn basics of connecting to MongoDB using a python […]
Best Way to Repair SQL Database: How to Restore SQL ...
Summary: SQL Server administrators frequently encounter the critical challenge of unexpected MDF file corruption. Such corruption can result […]
Connecting to PostgreSQL with Node.js
Overview In this article, we will understand how we can connect to PostgreSQL using Node.js application. We will […]
Taming Resource Hogs: Using SQL Server Resource Governor to Restrict ...
Taming Resource Hogs: Using SQL Server Resource Governor to Restrict User Group Consumption As a SQL Server professional, […]
Database Architecture Considerations for Implementing Content Moderation Services
Fellow SQL Server professionals, I wanted to share some insights and start a discussion about the database design […]
Unlocking Interoperability: A Guide to Foreign Data Wrappers in PostgreSQL ...
Unlocking Interoperability: A Guide to Foreign Data Wrappers in PostgreSQL and Aurora PostgreSQL AWS RDS As a database […]
When INCLUDE Columns Quietly Inflate Your Transaction Logs
Introduction As DBAs, we often think of INCLUDE columns as a harmless way to cover queries.They aren’t part […]
Getting In: Running External Code in a Locked-Down PaaS
In Part 1, I explored how to bend SQL Server Agent to our will and peek under the […]
Revolutionizing Efficiency: The Power of Custom Automation Software Development
With the ever-increasing pace of the digital era, companies are continuously looking for opportunities to enhance efficiency, cut […]
SQL Server and AI: Integrating Machine Learning Services
Have you ever wished you could run your data science experiments right where your data lives, without the […]
PostgreSQL Aggregate Functions
Overview In this article we will go through the various in built aggregate functions available in PostgreSQL. Aggregate […]
Unmasking CXPACKET and CXCONSUMER in SQL Server: What Your Execution ...
Introduction When you see high CPU and the query plan says « parallelism, » one of the first suspects is […]
State Transition Constraints
About two decades ago, I introduced the concept of transition constraints to show Data Validation in a […]
The Hidden Cost of MAXDOP: CPU Spikes, Query Slowdowns, and ...
Introduction In our TB-scale production system, a few queries had MAXDOP 4 hardcoded into them. The goal was […]
How to Choose the Right Tool for MS SQL to ...
This whitepaper serves as an in-depth guide for database administrators (DBAs), software engineers, data architects, and even semi-technical […]
Top 5 Power BI Common Pitfalls
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Helpful Management Studio Settings and Features
Working with SSMS can sometimes be quite frustrating, but there are many options provided to make your day […]
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 […]
How to Remove Constraints from a SQL Server Table
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Navigating Your Test Data Challenges: Insights and Solutions
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Windows Clustered MSDTC and SQL Server 2019 mishap
Introduction As you may know, in the early days of SQL Server Clustering, Microsoft advised to provide each […]
Qu’est ce qu’un expert en informatique ? Comment le devient-on ...
Je viens de passer près de 40 ans de ma vie dans le domaine des bases de données […]
Retour à chaud de la FabCon 2025
Ce matin, j’ai eu la chance d’être présent à Las Vegas à la Keynote de la 2eme […]
How I Achieved Scalability in a. Amazon RDS Shared DB ...
Overview Amazon RDS allows users to create multiple databases within a single database instance. And connections to each […]
The State of the Database Landscape in 2025: Insights and ...
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How to use the Azure Emulator to create blob containers, ...
Introduction Sometimes, we need to test our apps in Azure and we do not have time to connect […]
Configuring Maintenance Plans in SQL Server
In this article, we are going to configure a maintenance place on the SQL Server 2017 instance installed […]
How to Resolve SQL Server Database Stuck in Recovery Pending ...
Introduction In this article, we will learn how to restore a database which is stuck in the Recovery […]
JSON in Microsoft SQL Server: A Comprehensive Guide
Introduction JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) has become a popular data format for storing and exchanging information. Microsoft SQL […]
Boosting Data Accuracy: Resolving Common Data Quality Issues Using SQL
Project Context and Data Presentation Challenges In our projects we have seen, data quality issues manifest in various […]
Why Standards are Important
Throughout my career I have seen arguments as to which IT standard in a particular area, is the […]
Leveraging the “STUFF” Function for Enhanced Data Representation and String ...
Abstract In the realm of data management and business intelligence, effective data representation becomes crucial for deriving actionable […]
Connecting Streamlit to Upload Data to Snowflake
Introduction We often see and think of reporting as visualizing the already available data from a database and […]
T-SQL Tuesday #181: Query Store and its evolution
Query Store. This is my choice in relation to “What feature release made you say WOW!”, the […]
SQL Server Performances – CHAPITRE 3 – Estimateur de Cardinalité, ...
Voici une série d’article comportant 10 chapitres destinés à tout ceux qui veulent obtenir de meilleurs performances avec […]
The PASS Data Community Summit Session Schedule is LIVE!
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