Last Sunday (May 25) was the big day: my first Bike & Run over the half distance (90K bike, 21.1K run) in St. Pölten/Lower Austria. Since I had never before taken part in — or even witnessed — a triathlon event of this size, Saturday was already quite an adventure. I had absolutely no idea …
My First Bike & Run Half Distance: St. Pölten 2025 + read more
Back in 2018, I wrote a blog post about my Home Lab environment, which I had built around VMware vSphere to showcase various SQL Server workloads and demonstrate how to troubleshoot performance-related problems. Since then, a lot has changed – especially with the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom. In the past, I was a subscriber …
Solar-Powered, Proxmox-Driven: A Tour of My Ultimate SQL Server Home Lab + read more
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I’m excited to announce that on June 17 – 18, 2025, I’ll be running a special Online Live Training event focused entirely on SQL Server Query Tuning! This is a compact, intensive 2-day version of my highly acclaimed SQL Server Query Tuning Workshop – a course I delivered extensively across Europe before the COVID-19 pandemic. …
When working with PostgreSQL, understanding its text data types is essential, especially for those coming from a Microsoft SQL Server background. While both database systems support text storage, they handle it in fundamentally different ways. PostgreSQL provides several text-related data types, each with its own purpose and behavior, and understanding their nuances can help avoid …
Understanding Text Data Types in PostgreSQL and SQL Server + read more
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