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As a heavy user of other RDBMS data platforms, I have long appreciated the extra effort that Microsoft put into their data management and administration tool, the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

In this second delve into data cleanliness (read the first, How clean is your data?, here), we’ll test-drive the data profiling tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server. Other profiling tools have ...

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

Configure your SQL Server in the appsettings.json file, use appsettings.Development.json as a template.

Integrating Microsoft Copilot with SQL Server environments—whether on-premises (MS SQL 2022) or cloud-based (Azure SQL Server)—requires a systematic approach to unlock its full potential for query ...

Deep expertise in SQL Server performance tuning is less about following a static checklist and more about understanding the "engine under the hood." To move from a standard developer to a performance ...