3 days to go until the CfP for Data Ceili closes!

Fancy speaking at the amazing Trinity College in Dublin?

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Fun (well, for me :-) ) on a Friday....looking at startup scripts in SQL Server containers

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SQL Server 2025 Developer Edition – One size fits all Microsoft has released SQL Server 2025, bringing big improvements to its main database engine. This version focuses on AI features and better performance, aiming to meet the needs of today’s applications, from critical business systems to cloud-connected setups. Finally: New Developer Editions For years, Microsoft received feedback about a major gap in its licensing. The Developer edition always matched the Enterprise edition, letting developers use all features for free.

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SQL Server Regular Expression Performance and Guidelines SQL Server 2025 introduces regular expression (regex) functions to the TSQL language. You could do this in previous versions with user defined CLR

SQL Server Regular Expression Performance and Guidelines

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Learning SQL Server 2025: DOP Feedback Discover SQL Server 2025 DOP Feedback, how it optimizes query parallelism, improves performance, and why Microsoft enabled it by default.

DOP Feedback first appeared in SQL Server 2022, but had to be enabled manually. In SQL Server 2025, it’s now on by default.

In my latest post, I show how it works and demo it in action.

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Hey all, just a reminder that the @dataceili.bsky.social call for speakers is open!

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New blog post...A first look at SQL Server running in KubeVirt

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Accelerated Database Recovery for tempdb in SQL Server 2025 Accelerated database recovery was introduced in SQL Server 2019 and provides fast recovery, instantaneous transaction rollback, and aggressive log truncation. A complete overview of how ADR achieve…

Accelerated Database Recovery for tempdb in SQL Server 2025

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Learning SQL Server 2025: Optimized sp_executesql Explore SQL Server 2025’s OPTIMIZED_SP_EXECUTESQL feature with a hands-on demo showing how it reduces plan cache bloat and boosts query performance.

New blog post!

In a bid to learn the new features within SQL 2025, today's blog post covers the SQL 2025 feature – OPTIMIZED_SP_EXECUTESQL.

We walk through a straightforward demo to highlight how this feature can reduce plan cache bloat.

#sql #sql2025

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SQL Server 2025 Preview RC1: Now Supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 | Microsoft Community Hub We’re happy to announce that SQL Server 2025 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) now includes preview support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10, expanding...

SQL Server 2025 Preview RC1: Now Supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10

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Ruh-Roh! SQL Server 2025 Finally Brings Us a Free Standard Developer Edition - Scooby Dooing Episode 2 - A Shot of SQLEspresso (Continuing my Scooby theme 😊, I am on a roll) Zoinks! I feel like I’ve been chasing this ghost for years, and Microsoft finally pulled off the mask. With SQL Server 2025, we finally have what so many...

Long Overdue, But Worth the Chase -The community has been barking for this one (pun absolutely intended) for years, and Microsoft finally came through. SQL Server 2025 Finally Brings Us a Free Standard Developer Edition - Scooby Dooing Episode 2 #sqlserver #sql2025 #sqlfamily wp.me/p70D4E-Hk

One week to go until this year's edition of EightKB!

We have amazing in-depth technical sessions on SQL Server internals, delivered by expert speakers!

Registration is completely free and available here: -
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Another new blog post! Following on from my previous post about hitting the Kubernetes API from SQL Server...

Deploying SQL Server to Kubernetes...from SQL Server 2025

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Accessing the Kubernetes API from SQL Server 2025 The sp_invoke_external_rest_endpoint stored procedure that’s available in 2025 allows for SQL Server to hit external rest endpoints…which opens up quite a few interesting options. I was…

New blog! Accessing the Kubernetes API from SQL Server 2025!

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🚀 Top 10 SQL Server Data Migration Tools You Should Know in 2025

Migrating data between SQL Server environments?

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