SQLBalls

Bradley Ball is a Sr. Azure FastTrack Customer Engineer for Microsoft, and former Data Platform MVP. During his IT career Bradley has spent 8 years working as a Defense contractor for clients such as the U.S. Army, The Executive Office of the President of the United States for the Obama Administration, and is the former Data Platform Practice Manager for Pragmatic Works Consulting, now 3Cloud. He has presented at SQL Saturdays, SSUG's, SQL Rally, DevConnections, SQLBits, SQL Live 360, and the PASS Summit. Bradley co-hosts the Tales From The Field YouTube show https://aka.ms/TftF/youtube , he can also be found blogging on https://www.SQLBalls.com

Twitter: @sqlballs
Website: https://www.sqlballs.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sqlballs

PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Trimming Indexes, Getting Your Database in Shape

by SQLBalls

SQLBalls

Hello Dear Reader! Tomorrow at 12 noon eastern I’ll be presenting for the PASS DBA Virtual chapter, click here to...

2012-10-23

1,028 reads

DBA Study Guide

by SQLBalls

SQLBalls

http://www.flickr.com/photos/caledonia09/4999119065/
Hello Dear Reader, over here at Pragmatic Works we’ve been growing like weeds. For the most part we are looking...

2012-10-18

2,443 reads

SQL Saturday 151 Interview: Stacia Misner

by SQLBalls

SQLBalls

Hello Dear Reader SQL Saturday 151 is just around the corner. If you haven't registerd there is still time to...

2012-09-27

1,725 reads

Please VOTE for Me: PASS Summit 2012 Lightening Talks

by SQLBalls

SQLBalls

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyndydoty/2087680308/Hello Dear Reader the PASS Summit is approaching and with that the program committee sent out a request for Lightening...

2012-08-20

1,058 reads

Database Corruption, Transparent Data Encryption, and Trace Flag 5004

by SQLBalls

SQLBalls

This one comes straight from the email bag. A friend recently had a problem, they were placing TDE on a...

2012-08-17 (first published: 2012-08-13)

5,745 reads

SQL Saturday 151 BI Pre-con: Stacia Misner

by SQLBalls

SQLBalls

Hello Dear Reader, SQL Saturday 151 Orlando is picking up steam. The Pre-Con’s have been named and they are fantastic. ...

2012-08-16

744 reads

Database Certificates and the X.509 Standard

by SQLBalls

SQLBalls

Hello Dear Reader, I came across an interesting discovery about a year ago and realized I’d never written about it. ...

2012-08-14

1,090 reads

How to Data Compress Varchar(MAX)

by SQLBalls

SQLBalls

I talk a lot about compression. I’ve blogged a pretty decent amount on it as well. One of the things...

2012-08-08

8,034 reads

Book Review: On Writing A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

by SQLBalls

SQLBalls

I just finished this book. Literally. Sitting on an airplane in route from Orlando to Charlotte NC. I got up...

2012-08-07

1,020 reads

How to Find Bad Page Splits

by SQLBalls

SQLBalls

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brickapolis/5474835288/

I was working with a friend last week, doing SQL related teaching and tune ups. Earlier this week I had...

2012-08-06

4,253 reads

Blogs

Don’t Fear the Technology

By Brian Kelley

The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...

Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG

By MarlonRibunal

The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...

Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows

After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information

I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...

Make It Routine

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Make It Routine

Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Finding Gaps in Sequential Data...

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

Negative and Positive Numbers

If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?

See possible answers