Chris Yates

Chris Yates is a Database Administration Manager with over thirteen years of experience in the SQL industry. His experience includes design and implementation of both OLTP and OLAP solutions as well as assessment and implementation of SQL Server environments for best practices, performance, and high availability solutions accompanied by a strong development background. He enjoys helping others in the SQL Server community and does this by contributing on several SQL forums, creating “The SQL Professor”, and speaking at several SQL functions. His passion and focus is not only with technology but also helping others along their way and career path.

SQL Sentry Plan Explorer – Don’t Leave Home Without It

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

If you’ve been around me long enough then you realize that I am a Red Gate fanatic. With that said...

2014-12-09

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PASS Summit 2014 ~ My GameTime Experience

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

“How did you like your convention?”
“How was your trip?”
“What did you learn?”
“Where did you go for a week?”
“Who did you...

2014-11-25

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What Are You Thankful For

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

Bob Pusateri (B | T) wrote a blog post yesterday for anyone who was interested on sharing what they were thankful...

2014-11-18

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T-SQL Tuesday #60 Roundup – Step Right Up

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

We had a great turnout for this months T-SQL Tuesday Block Party. Coming into this month and knowing that I...

2014-11-16

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T-SQL Tuesday #60 Something New Learned

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

So, here it is. I put the challenge out to discuss something new learned last week. I was fortunate enough...

2014-11-11

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T-SQL Tuesday #60 – Something New Learned

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

Lights go on, it’s another game day, grabbed my bat and headed for the plate only this time we are...

2014-11-05

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Im At Summit Now What?

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

Pass Summit 2011 – Photo Provided by Pat Wright
We are a week out from PASS Summit 2014 and there will be...

2014-10-28

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The Question – Why?

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

The question I get asked a lot by other data professionals at conferences, events, speaking engagements, family, friends, etc. is...

2014-10-14 (first published: 2014-10-06)

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T-SQL Tuesday #59 – My Hero!

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

It always amazes me how fast these T-SQL Tuesday block parties come about; it seems like we just finished one...

2014-10-14

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C-R-U-D The Basics

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

C-R-U-D The Basics
What is CRUD? Well, there are a lot of things I can think of when I use the...

2014-10-09 (first published: 2014-10-01)

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Blogs

Building a Docker image with Docker Build Cloud

By Andrew Pruski

In a previous blog post we went through how to build a Docker container...

Top 8 Courses to Learn SQL for Data Science in 2024 & Beyond

By Tracy McKibben

Businesses are drowning in data, but starving for insights. That's where SQL experts swoop...

Going to Cloud? Look at the Shared Responsibility Model

By Brian Kelley

The bottom line here is this: the idea that a CSP takes care of...

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Forums

Aligning Compatibility Version Strategy

I have joined a new project, where the business uses Azure SQL Hyperscale for...

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Restore dbs

The below code works for backup files only from local drives. When replaced with...

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Question of the Day

Initial Config of tempdb

What are the initial config sizes for the tempdb primary data files, secondary data files, and log files in SQL Server 2022?

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