The theme for this time is SQL "execution plans."Execution plans are one of the technologies you absolutely must understand when considering database performance.However, this content might also be a ...

SQL Server Management Studio can help take the guesswork out of creating connection strings for PowerShell applications.

Massive Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have become the norm and October may actually have broken records, fixing over 1,400 vulnerabilities in Windows. This comes just a month after the company ...

The content of this article might be a bit difficult for those with no programming experience.This is because, in my ...

As a follow-on from last week’s post about the new ApproximateDistinctCount function in DAX, I want to share something I found out from my recent testing for this function: ApproximateDistinctCount is ...

As you’ve probably seen in the blog post for the September 2026 release of Power BI, Import mode and Direct Lake mode semantic models now support the ApproximateDistinctCount() DAX function. I tested ...

Bill Schmidt (Renson House) explains when a data historian fits plant process data better than SQL Server or Oracle—and where historians hit limits.

Applies to: SQL Server 2016 (13.x) and later versions Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance Azure Synapse Analytics (dedicated SQL pool only) SQL database in Microsoft Fabric Query Store can ...

SQL MCP Server gives enterprises a secure, feature-rich way to enable agents to access data. This is accomplished without exposing the schema, risking consistency, or relying on fragile natural ...

Recursive SQL expressions allow you to reference previous results in a hierarchical data set in order to extract information. Here’s how it works. The post will not go into the details of those many ...

SQL Server is primarily built around a row-based table structure that connects related data elements in different tables to one another, avoiding the need to redundantly store data in multiple places ...

See Configuring Claude Desktop / Claude Code for examples. A comprehensive Microsoft SQL Server client implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This server provides extensive SQL Server ...