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SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition Sucks
The best new features in SQL Server 2014 probably won't come with the cheap prices or licensing. Learn why the release date will probably be an expensive one.
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Fabric Is Just Plain Unreliable, and Microsoft's Hiding It
Update 2025/07/21: Microsoft heard the complaints, and fixed the reliability added a better status page. Baby steps. Last week, Microsoft Fabric went down yet again for hours on multiple continents. Oh, you didn’t hear about it? Let’s talk about why. First, Fabric’s status page is fabricated bullshit. The link…
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The DeWitt Clause: Why You Rarely See Database Benchmarks
Back in the early 1980s, Dr. David DeWitt – who you might know from past PASS Summit keynotes, formerly of Microsoft (LinkedIn) – was working on measuring database performance. His team wrote a benchmark, ran it against Oracle, and Oracle didn’t fare well in the results. Oracle reacted as one would expect – they were…