So, to test it myself, I added a full-text index to a column containing street names (so therefore fairly short strings) in a semantic model containing data from my favourite public data source, the ...

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.

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

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 ...

If you've just started writing SQL Server queries, there's a good chance you probably wrote a query, saw it return the right rows, and moved on. That's normal and it's also exactly why so many ...

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