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Please Fix This–T-SQL Tuesday #86

It’s T-SQL Tuesday time, and this month is an interesting topic. The invite comes from Brent Ozar, and it’s designed to get you to look at SQL Server. I spent some time thinking about this one and getting a post … Continue reading

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SQL Server is Getting More Popular

At the db-engines.com site, SQL Server was named the DMBS of the year. This was the site’s choice based on a measure of how popularity changed from Jan 2016 -Jan 2017. Apparently SQL Server grew in popularity in a number … Continue reading

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Syntactic Sugar

There are all sort of features and enhancements that Microsoft can make to the SQL Server platform. If you look around Connect, you’ll see suggestions for improvements, such adding common checks, as well as additions like adding virtual tables. I’m … Continue reading

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Provisioning

This editorial was originally published on May 24, 2013. It is being re-run as Steve is on holiday. At a talk recently, the presenter talked about the time lag for an on-premises server to be installed and configured to be … Continue reading

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