How Can I Get Accepted to Speak at the PASS Summit?

There has been some discussion and concern over the changes to the speaker selection process for the PASS Summit. I’ve...

Less QA?

It seems that QA is being cut more and more as software development advances. Is that a good thing? Steve Jones has some thoughts.

Quick Graph Database

There’s a sample to work through here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/graphs/sql-graph-sample
I decided to try this in CTP2 and just see how it works....

DevOps Basics–Creating a local repo and committing files

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

Finding Report Execution

Using DBCC Clonedatabase

I haven’t messed with the new DBCC CloneDatabase option in SQL Server 2014/12016 (depending on patches), but recently I saw...

Testing values in R

Balloons and Data

A common misconception for users is how tempdb, and data files in general work.

Stopping Checkpoints

The Power BI Pivot

This week Steve looks at the Power BI announcement of a new server product.