I talk about progress in aggregating strings – both in the functionality offered by SQL Server and the quality of my own code samples.

In this tip I confirm that FORMAT is still a dog compared to even very complex expressions using CONCAT_WS, DATENAME, DATEPART, and CONVERT.

I was honored to be a guest on the most recent Mixed Extents podcast, along with my friend and colleague Andy Mallon, where we talked about patching SQL Server.

I harassed Erik Ejlskov Jensen enough to make a universal command-line version of SqlQueryStress. See how I set up a performance test between Intel and M1 MacBooks.