I show how I turned a country buffet of cables and external storage into an almost wire-free workspace.

See the new overloaded STRING_SPLIT() function with its enable_ordinal parameter, now available in an Azure SQL Database near you.

In this tip, I show how I compared my previous favorite ordered splitting function to a different technique using OPENJSON().

I show one way to run arbitrary SQL against objects in an arbitrary database – using nested dynamic SQL.

In the midst of job change announcements throughout the SQL Server community, I have a little announcement of my own.

Using PowerShell calling nested dynamic SQL that drives a cursor, I show one way to collect information about queries with index hints both in the plan cache and in stored procedures, views, and other modules.