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.

Running for the PASS Board of Directors #PASSelections

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

This year I decided to take “someday” to heart and do something that has been on my mind for awhile...

2017-09-21 (first published: 2017-09-14)

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Four PASS Questions–My Take #PASSElections

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

As part of the campaign material for this years election for Board of Directors; the candidates were asked to answer...

2017-09-19

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SQL Saturday Louisville Re-Cap

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

And like the wind another SQL Saturday Louisville has come and gone. This past weekend seemed to be a huge...

2017-08-09

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SQL Summer Vacation–SentryOne

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

We are having an extra Louisville SQL Server and Power BI User Group meeting this month due to the SQL...

2017-07-24

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PAC Community Ambassador – SQL Sentry

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

Last week Aaron Bertrand (b|t) published a post regarding five new PAC Community Ambassadors for SentryOne. I am privileged and...

2017-07-17

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T-SQL Tuesday #92, Lessons Learned The Hard Way

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

Wow, hard for me to believe it has been a little bit since the last T-SQL Tuesday block party. This...

2017-07-11

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Built My Presentation, Now What?

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

Over the course of several years, I have given many technical and non-technical presentations. It is fun for me to...

2017-06-07

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Can a Data Professional Be Organized?

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” While this quote is true...

2017-05-05 (first published: 2017-04-25)

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QA, Utility Databases, and Job Executions

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

Sometimes we, as data professionals, have to think outside the box. I know, crazy idea right? Each shop and situation...

2017-04-26

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SQL Doc by RedGate

by Chris Yates

The SQL Professor

I recently was on a call where a technical unit indicated they did not receive any form of documentation around...

2017-04-24 (first published: 2017-04-19)

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Blogs

First Time Speaking with a Mask at an Event

By DataOnWheels

Over the past couple of months, I have started losing my ability to talk...

A New Word: Apolytus

apolytus– n. the moment you realize you are changing as a person, finally outgrowing...

Tired of Tedious SQL Queries? AI Tools Can Automate The Boring Parts

By Tracy McKibben

If you've ever wrestled with complex SQL code, you know the drill. Hours spent...

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Forums

Slow update on temp table

I have a job running each night starting at 4:30AM and usually finishing at...

Table Partitioning - remove null range

hi guys, I have a partitioned table AM_ITM_INSTNC_MSS and I want to get...

Principal owns a service?

By Brandie Tarvin

This is one I haven't seen before. I'm trying to drop a database user...

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Question of the Day

Read Only Replica in SQL Server Standard

Our environment runs using SQL Server Standard. We are implementing Availability groups. Our database has been experiencing high read volumes, so I want to let the application read the Synchronized Secondary replica, as I read that HADR does this. Can we implement this?

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