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.

The SQL Server Amazon Machine Images (AMI) is built, updated, and fully-patched by AWS within five business days of Microsoft's patch Tuesday (the second Tuesday of each month). Launching an instance ...

Microsoft's September 2026 cumulative updates are causing Remote Desktop Services failures on Windows Server 2019, 2022 and 2025 systems, cutting off connections and, in the most severe cases, forcing ...

PostgreSQL subqueries allow one SQL query to run inside another, making it possible to solve filtering, aggregation, comparison, and table based problems without writing separate queries. The lesson ...

Microsoft warned customers last week that they may experience application crashes on some Windows Server 2025 due to recent memory management changes. This known issue affects apps that use Address ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a Microsoft SQL Server remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1068, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog ...