A SQL Server expert gives his take on the absolute, No. 1, very worst thing IT pros can do when it comes to indexing. Consultant, author and Microsoft MVP Denny Cherry travels the world helping ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

Knowing exactly what in-memory OLTP tables are used for will help you make the most of one of SQL Server's newest features. While in-memory online transaction processing (OLTP) tables may sound like a ...

A small ETL solution that imports data from Excel files into SQL Server tables. Connection details are stored in project parameters (never hard-coded) to keep credentials secure. I will attach a SQL ...

Configures DuckDB as a SQL Server linked server via ODBC, enabling T-SQL queries that join local SQL Server tables with remote Parquet files over HTTP/HTTPS or AWS S3 in a single statement. SQL Server ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...