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Four live class weeks of SQL Server performance tuning, with me answering questions as we go. Registration closes Nov 30; after that, it’s recordings only until next year.
17d 11h 38m Until the live classes start · Nov 2, 9 AM Pacific
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There's a new SQL Server Management Studio update out today.
I'd hold off on it for now.
Microsoft has started a series of blog posts helping Postgres developers who are "upgrading" to Microsoft SQL. (Microsoft's been using that generic "SQL" term to refer to its collection of database products: Azure SQL DB, Hyperscale, Managed Instances, and SQL Server.)
I let the first blog post slide, but the second post explained why Microsoft is so much better than Postgres at handling connections, and it's so egregiously misleading that I'm gonna have to step in.
You’re a developer or a DBA, and you’re comfortable writing queries to get the data you need. You’re much less comfortable trying to design the right indexes for your database server. In my new totally free How to Think Like the Engines class, you’ll learn how the SQL Server and Postgres database engines look at your indexes and build your query results.
