#SqlServer
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 is now Generally Available (GA) - with the same modern look and feel like Visual Studio 2026!
#sqlserver #visualstudio
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November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
It's a good feeling on a Friday to improve a #SQLServer query with a supporting index: Execution time from 1.2 s down to 0.1 ms and logical reads down from more than 524,000 to 50 by a factor of 10,000.
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Just added the ability to make your Aspire AppHost start much faster with SQL Database Projects by skipping deployment when not needed - .WithSkipWhenDeployed()
#dotnet #dotnetaspire #sqlserver
Add ability to skip .dacpac deployment by ErikEJ · Pull Request #896 · CommunityToolkit/Aspire
if metadata in the target database indicates that the database has already been deployed fixes #860 Smoke tested with: var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args); var server = builde...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🚀 Learn how Contained Availability Groups simplify SQL Server 2022 management! 🎤 Join Andreas Wolter, Ex-Microsoft Senior Program Manager, for a demo-packed session! 🗓 Oct 23, 12:00 PM EDT

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#SQLServer #DataDriven #DBA #DataCommunity
Contained Availability Groups – Best practices and real-world challenges, Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
Since their introduction in SQL Server 2012, **Always On Availability Groups** have become the preferred high availability technology for many DBAs. **SQL Server 2022** int
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October 21, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Just blogged: Get a 180% speed increase on large async reads with Microsoft .Data.SqlClient (and EF Core) - here is how to turn it on!
#dotnet #efcore #sqlserver #performance
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Get a 180% speed increase on large async reads with Microsoft.Data.SqlClient (and EF Core) - here is how to turn it on!
tl;dr - Enable a new feature in the latest .NET SqlClient driver with a couple of switches to get a 180% increase in speed when reading large binary and text data using async methods.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
New blog post:
SSMS 22 Preview 3 comes with some promissing features and improvements.
And the startup speed has finally been noticeably improved
#sqlserver #sqldba #microsoftsqlserver #mssqlserver #mssql #mssqldba #sql
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SQL Server Management Studio 22 Preview 3 - first impressions
SQL Server Management Studio 22 Preview 3 was released 2 days ago, so I took it out for a spin and here are my first impressions so far.
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October 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Introducing GitHub Copilot in SSMS 22 | Data Exposed with Anna Hoffman & Erin Stellato

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#podcast #ssms #sqlserver #githubcopilot #ai #database
Introducing GitHub Copilot in SSMS 22 | Data Exposed
The preview of GitHub Copilot in SSMS is now available in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 Preview 3! Open a query editor and connect to a SQL database, login using the same GitHub Copilot…
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October 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
New blog post: SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for October 2025

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#SQLServer #SQLServer2025
October 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Crazy way to end my week.

I now assist in moderating:
r/PowerBI
r/MicrosoftFabric
r/SQLServer
r/MicrosoftPurview
r/AzureSynapseAnalytics

Perhaps my Chief Redditor title at Microsoft is becoming true.
October 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Introducing 'SQL Project Power Tools' - create, import, diagram and analyze SQL database projects in Visual Studio - a collection of tools to improve developer UX in Visual Studio 2026 and 2022
#dotnet #sqlserver #visualstudio
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Introducing 'SQL Project Power Tools' - create, import, diagram and analyze SQL database projects in Visual Studio
In this blog post I will introduce you to a new free and open source Visual Studio extension SQL Project Power Tools, that I maintain.
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September 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
New blog post live! In part 3 of the deep dive into hash tables, I will show you how to use our knowledge of the structure of the hash table to identify hash collisions from looking at query results.
#SQLServer

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A deep dive into hash tables, part 3 - SQLServerFast
Welcome back! In the previous parts, I first showed how a Hash Match (Left Outer Join) can give insight in the order of data in a hash table, and then used that trick to obtain and verify some interes...
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September 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Myth: “SQL Server is slow? Let’s buy bigger hardware.”

❌ Wrong.
Bad indexes remain bad indexes.

Like in triathlon: you can’t replace training with a new bike. 🚴

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#sqlserver #sqlpassion #healthcheck #performance
Free 30‑Minute SQL Server Health Check – SQLpassion
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September 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This weekend! Why does #SQLServer use some indexes but not others? @sqlballs.com dives into indexing internals and SQL Server's C++ architecture to make your queries faster at #RetroData

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September 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
10 years ago: 85kg couch potato 🛋️
Today: 65kg triathlete 🏊🚴🏃
Discipline, focus & strategy → exactly what SQL Server performance needs.

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#SQLServer #Triathlon #HighPerformance
September 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
My talk "Troubleshotting #SQLServer with SysInternals Tools" starts in 20 minutes in Islander AB #DevConnections
November 24, 2024 at 10:28 AM
Going on NOW! @feaselkl talk on SQL injection at @PASS_SecurityVC http://bit.ly/1hQ30tN #SQLPASS #SQLServer
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November 23, 2024 at 5:36 AM
Today I'm introducing a new project from me: the SQLpassion Weekly Updates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdHKpswp5_E Enjoy! #sqlpassion #sqlserver #sqlfamily
November 22, 2024 at 4:39 PM