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.

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AI Innovation in Microsoft Keynote

I’m thrilled to be covering the Microsoft Keynote: Fuel AI Innovation with Azure Databases on Day 1 of the PASS Data Community Summit. Data is the driving force behind innovation, powering...

2024-11-18 (first published: )

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How Can Data Empower Leaders

Using data effectively, leaders can make better decisions, drive innovation, and inspire trust. What is leadership through data? Leadership that utilizes data is the ability to use data as...

2024-03-13 (first published: )

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Blogs

Azure Cloud Chronicles with Microsoft MVPs YouTube Channel

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In my YouTube subscriptions feed, a new video for the Azure Cloud Chronicles with...

T-SQL Tuesday #188: Growing the Community

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This month we have a great T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by John Sterrett. He has...

Unveiling the Legacy: POSTGRES to Modern Open-Source Powerhouse

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PostgreSQL, often referred to as Postgres, is a powerful, open-source object-relational database system that...

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Report Table/view or SP in SQL to handle various reports

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I have an Access database with a SQL backend with tables, views, SP's. I...

Each database having its own disk?

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Good morning, Once again, I find myself Sr. DBA for a company.  As I...

the value of the effectiveusername xml for analysis property is not valid

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I'm experiencing odd behaviour when using Analysis Services as a data source in Excel...

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Independence Day

The film independence day was released in 1996. Which of these queries returns that year is run today?

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