2025-12-31
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humor
2025-12-29 (first published: 2025-12-24)
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SQL Art: I Made a Christmas Card In SSMS
A little Christmas fun for you using the spatial features in SQL Server and SSMS.
2025-12-24
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2025-11-28
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Custom Statistics Distributions in SQL Server 2022
You can create custom statistics distributions, sampling, and histograms in SQL Server 2022 with a new trace flag
2024-04-01
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2024-04-01
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CosmosDB APIs Inside SQL Server 2024
New enhancements in SQL Server 2024 will allow MongoDB and Cassandra clients to store their data in a SQL Server database, in native NoSQL format.
2024-04-01
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2023-12-29
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2023-12-25
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Why Haven’t You Disabled SA? Wrong Answers Only.
On social media, I asked folks, “Why haven’t you disabled the SA account in your SQL Servers? Wrong answers only.” The results were pretty funny:
2023-12-01
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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