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JSON vs XML

SQL SERVER Performance – JSON vs XML

August 26, 2025
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
JSON, SQL XML

What started as a simple recommendation turned into a comprehensive benchmarking exercise. Let us see blog post about JSON vs XML.

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Farmers running down road with query performance train.

SQL SERVER Performance: When MAXDOP = 1 Slowed Down the Entire Business

July 25, 2025
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, MAXDOP, SQL CPU, SQL Wait Stats

Slow reports, slow transactions, and the internal team could not find why. In this case study, MAXDOP = 1 was quietly slowing down the entire business.

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Gouache painting: a garden irrigation channel of stone with small wooden gates that direct the flowing water to different vegetable beds; one gate is vermilion

First Look at Apache Airflow 3.0: A Game-Changer in Workflow Orchestration

June 27, 2025
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Apache Airflow, ETL, Python

If you’ve spent any time wrangling data pipelines, you know that Apache Airflow is a staple in the orchestration world. Let us learn.

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deployments

Automating SQL Server Deployments Across Multiple Databases Using Python

June 24, 2025
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks

Let us learn about Automating SQL Server Deployments Across Multiple Databases Using Python. We have complete script in this blog.

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Catching Non-SARGable Queries in Action.

SQL SERVER – Catching Non-SARGable Queries in Action

April 23, 2025
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Clustered Index, Execution Plan, Performance Schema, SQL Index

If you ever wondered why a query that looks harmless is performing poorly despite having indexes in place, the answer could non-SARGable queries.

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key lookup

SQL SERVER Performance Tuning: Catching Key Lookup in Action

April 3, 2025
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Clustered Index, Execution Plan, SQL Index

In this blog post, we’ll explore what a Key Lookup is, how to spot it, and most importantly, how to eliminate it using a covering index.

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ANSI PADDING and Storage - SQL in Sixty Seconds 210

ANSI PADDING and Storage – SQL in Sixty Seconds 210

January 16, 2025
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
SQL Data Storage, SQL Server Configuration

ANSI PADDING is an often-overlooked yet impactful setting in SQL Server that determines how trailing spaces are handled in CHAR and VARCHAR.

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