Why Projects Fail...Free Session, Free Beer and Free Food

Why Projects Fail...Free Session, Free Beer and Free Food 

Mark Williams and myself will delivering a seminar called #Not the GDPR news in...

AT TIME ZONE: The easy way to deal with time zones and daylight savings time

Many people think daylight savings time was created to help align the hours that the sun is up with our...

Buggy Whips 2.0

I recently found myself rereading a very old blog post of mine, from the very beginning of this blog, discussing...

Free Webinar – DBAs vs. SysAdmins in Cloud Availability April 19

SIOS and I are proud to host a joint free webinar entitled “DBAs vs. SysAdmins in Cloud Availability” on Thursday,...

How SQL Compilation Can Prove the Server CPU

It is relatively easy to spot CPU-bound system. But, the source of CPU pressure is not always easy to pinpoint....

Imposter syndrome

Last week I posted the following “joke” on twitter: –

I’ve called it a “joke” but I wasn’t really joking. This...

Jacksonville, South Florida, and Houston

Just crossed off my quarterly goal of planning SQLSaturday attendance for the next quarter (I’m writing this on March 31st!)....

Migrating to Azure DBaaS – A Client’s Steps Taken to the Cloud – Part 2

Hello everybody!  Thanks for stopping by again.  In Part 1 of this series, I gave the background of the project, and...

Podcast: Myths of Modern Data Management

As part of the Secrets of Data Analytics Leaders by the Eckerson Group, I did a 30-minute podcast with Wayne Eckerson where I...

Podcast: Myths of Modern Data Management

As part of the Secrets of Data Analytics Leaders by the Eckerson Group, I did a 30-minute podcast with Wayne Eckerson where I...