Category Archives: Editorial

How Much Linux Do You Need?

Posted on February 14, 2025 by way0utwest

SQL Server on Linux was released with version 2017. Since then, I’ve seen some deployments of SQL Server on Linux, but many of the customers I work with still deploy SQL Server on Windows. While there are limitations and unsupported … Continue reading →

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The End of Azure Data Studio

Posted on February 12, 2025 by way0utwest

I don’t know how many of you will be disappointed or impacted by this, but Azure Data Studio (ADS) is being retired, as of 6 Feb, 2025. It will be supported for a little over a year, until 28 Feb, … Continue reading →

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Extended Event Comfort

Posted on February 10, 2025 by way0utwest

I saw an interesting thread recently in the SQL Server Community Slack where someone posted about extended events (XE). They were asking about whether XE would have a problem with a situation. The problem wasn’t so interesting, but a quote … Continue reading →

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No End to Programmers

Posted on February 8, 2025 by way0utwest

There’s an interesting piece at O’Reilly this week titled The End of Programming as We Know It. That’s actually a good title, but it doesn’t mean the end to programmers, developers, software engineers, of whatever people call themselves. The piece … Continue reading →

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