The best thing about being an SQL Server consultant is that you get called in on the most interesting cases. By “interesting” I mean...

SQL Server 2016 offers built-in support for JSON, in a similar way to the support offered for XML since SQL Server 2000. Both XML and...

Last week I got a call from one of our clients. They issued an ALTER TABLE command in order to change the data type of one of the columns...

On July 25th Microsoft released the first cumulative update (#1) for SQL Server 2016. This is a good reason to celebrate. Usually we are...

This is also called the natural logarithm, which is approximately equal to to 2.718281828459… I like numbers: many numbers, huge numbers...

About 3 years ago Matan Yungman contacted me and said he has an interesting proposition. We met and talked about all kinds of things,...

A month ago, my wife and I were in Barcelona for a short vacation. In one of the days, we entered a small place called Wok to Walk for...

I’m excited to say that I will be delivering a session in this year’s PASS Summit in Seattle later this year! The session is called...

This post is for T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by Michael Swart (blog | twitter). This month’s topic is all about SQL Server 2016 I’ve been...

24 Hours of PASS coming up on May 25-26 We have challenged our team to choose one MUST SEE session, a session that there is no chance...