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

After several discussions with the Microsoft team and chatting with Sunil Sabat about the testing I was conducting, the conclusion was...

To quickly summarize where we are, we started testing Microsoft Fabric with a 10GB tar file, which took over 20 hours to extract, and now...

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...

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...

At the end of 2021, I started using the new SFTP preview feature on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2. It was a great new addition to the...

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...