Observability practitioners may be familiar with using one query language for logs, another for metrics and another for traces and application performance monitoring. That can sometimes pose ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a spinning wheel, waiting for your Power Query to refresh, only to wonder if there’s a better way? For anyone working with large datasets, refresh delays aren’t ...

The move to the data lakehouse was full of promises—speed, agility, and cost-effective query performance, to name a few. Yet, many enterprises find it difficult to realize all these benefits at once; ...

There’s a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...

Part of the problem is that there is no magic bullet, and for almost every best practice, I can show you at least one exception. Typically, a developer finds his or her own favorite methods — though ...