(Uwe Ricken) Developer shops may decide to use Read Committed Snapshot Isolation (RCSI) to reduce contention, and possibly improve performance, but it is not without its own pitfalls.

(Paul White) This post is part of a series of articles about row goals. You can find the other parts here:

(Grant Fritchey) I was surprised to find out that a lot people hadn’t heard about the new join type, Adaptive join. So, I figured I could do a quick overview.

(André César Rodrigues) Recently Microsoft announced the Public Preview Azure Database Migration Service (Azure DMS), a new way to migrate your data from a SQL Server database or from other sources to Azure:

(Pinal Dave) During the early year of my career, one of the most popular questions I used to receive was – What is Forwarded Record? I used to find this question very valid as many people yet did not know what is the forwarded record.

(blobeater) When you create a “logical” Azure SQL Server (I say logical because we are not really physically creating anything) there is a setting that is ticked ON by default which is called “Allow Azure services to access server”.

(Robert Sheldon) SQL Server Machine Learning Services (MLS), along with the Python language, offer a wide range of options for analyzing and visualizing data. I covered a number of these options in the previous articles in this series and provided examples of how to use them in your Python scripts.

(Jason Thomas) The other day, one of my enterprise customers asked me if there were any guides or documentation to forecast the cost for Power BI service licensing (Pro and Premium) for 3 years based on user growth.

(Edwin Sarmiento) In a previous tip on Installing SQL Server vNext CTP1 on Red Hat Linux 7.2, we have read about how we can now install SQL Server 2017 on a Linux operating system. We would like to evaluate running SQL Server 2017 Availability Groups on Linux. How do we go about building the Linux e

(Chris Webb) The first mistake that all new Analysis Services Tabular developers make is this one: they create a new project in SSDT, they connect to their source database, they select the tables they want to work with, they click Import, and they then realise that trying to load a fact table with s