"This has become much faster."I write that in the Pull Request description and ask for a review.The cause was the search on the list screen. As the data increased, the display became sluggish, and ...

If you've just started writing SQL Server queries, there's a good chance you probably wrote a query, saw it return the right ...

Enterprise AI pilots may encounter difficulties not only when a model generates incorrect SQL, but also when teams lack visibility into those errors or must grant the agent broad access to test its ...

A popular performance tuning book gets updated for SQL Server 2025, how does it fare? Ian Stirk takes and in depth look and finds it pretty good. This well-liked SQL Server book examines performance ...

SQL Server DBA specializing in performance tuning and disaster recovery. Bad code rarely begins the cascade of most SQL Server performance problems. Typically, it begins with something that is much ...

How schema-aware AI SQL tools are reducing query failures, improving accuracy rates up to 90%, and helping non-technical teams access enterprise data without waiting for analysts. AI-driven SQL tools ...

It’s time to switch to a new development tool for SQL Server and Azure SQL. Here’s how to get started with the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. Microsoft recently ended support for Azure Data ...

As SQL Server 2016 approaches end of support in July 2026, a look back at its groundbreaking innovations reveals how it reshaped Microsoft's data platform and why it's time to move forward. As I've ...

This is going to sound strange, but one of the things I like about tuning Power BI DirectQuery semantic models is that their generally-slower performance and the fact you can see the SQL queries that ...

Faster analytics with no tuning: DBSQL added another automatic speed boost this year, improving dashboard and query performance without any index or parameter management. AI built directly into SQL ...

Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers’ laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and ...

Applies to: SQL Server 2017 (14.x) and later versions Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance SQL database in Microsoft Fabric Automatic tuning is a database feature that provides insight into ...