Taking a gamble on Azure Data Studio Notebooks

• by Daniel Janik

• Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

If you’re a data professional or application developer chances are you’ve run into Microsoft SQL Server once or twice. I would think that the majority of SQL Server professionals...

2019-05-30

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I’ve added data classifications. Now what?

• by Daniel Janik

• Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

About a year ago I wrote about a new feature in SSMS that allows you to add a data classification...

2019-03-08 (first published: 2019-02-20)

2,501 reads

Free SQL tuning tool: How’s My Database?

• by Daniel Janik

• Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

It’s taken longer than I thought it may and I’ve run into several problems along the way but had a...

2019-02-13

194 reads

Where have I been?

• by Daniel Janik

• Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

Before you read too far, this is going to be a deeply personal post.Where do I begin? As many of...

2019-02-13

139 reads

Where to watch Ignite

• by Daniel Janik

• Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

In case you aren’t familiar with #MSIgnite, it’s a huge event where Microsoft debuts all the new shiny software that...

2018-09-24

260 reads

Are scalar functions really a bad thing?

• by Daniel Janik

• Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

I’ve read a lot of things lately pointing to scalar functions as if they were the devil. In this blog...

2018-09-18 (first published: 2018-09-10)

3,708 reads

Hello Denver! I’m speaking this weekend

• by Daniel Janik

• Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

For those of you in the Denver area, SQL Saturday is this weekend! I’m speaking and hope to see you...

2018-09-11

211 reads

I’m speaking at SQL Saturday 749 : Baton Rouge

• by Daniel Janik

• Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

Hello Louisiana! It’s that time of year again. I’ll be speaking on Saturday August 11th in Baton Rouge with many...

2018-07-27

494 reads

SQL Saturday Houston is this weekend

• by Daniel Janik

• Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

I’m speaking along with many other amazingly talented professionals, including Adam from Guy In A Cube. If you’re in the...

2018-06-19

303 reads

You know everything about GROUP BY. Do you?

• by Daniel Janik

• Confessions of a Microsoft Addict

SQL is a stout language and SQL Server has so many features that it’s impossible to be an expert in...

2018-06-01 (first published: 2018-05-25)

5,570 reads