Amazon just announced new X2iedn instance types for Amazon RDS SQL Server. They’re a sweet deal for people who want a high-performance managed database, with really fast cores and more memory per core than you can get in Azure’s managed SQL offerings.
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DevOps is great, but Steve thinks we need to ensure we include security is a part of what we do when building and deploying software.
This article introduces M language concepts and examples of using M to manipulate data in Excel.
Last Saturday, September 23, was the first day of Fall. Regardless of how much has happened and changed over the last three and a half years, time keeps marching forward. And yet, there's exciting familiarity every time I see November approaching because I know something special is about to happen for those of us in […]
An Azure datacenter had a failure after an incident, partially because they didn't have enough people. Steve notes that staffing is a challenge in many ways.
This article shows how you can have your Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipeline send an email using a Logic App.
SQL Server post migration step is very crucial for reconciling any data accuracy and completeness, as well as uncover performance issues with the workload.
Profiler is a GUI based tool that runs a SQL Server trace to capture the metrics listed above as well additional data. This data can then be used to determine where your SQL Server performance issues are related to your TSQL code. Running a trace without using Profiler is known as a Server Side Trace. You can create and start the trace using TSQL commands instead of having to use the GUI.
The way we view our jobs might change how we do them. Steve has some advice on how to think about the work you do.
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In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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