My Interview at Data Platform Geeks 2017

Dear All, Earlier this year in August, I had the privilege of speaking at Data Platform Summit 2017 at Bangalore. As always a terrific experience to hangout, interact and...

SQL Saturday Nepal 2017

 
I had the honor to visit Nepal and participate in SQL Saturday Nepal 2017. You can visit the event website...

An Identity Crisis: Is it Profiler or is it Extended Events?

Despite it being new, it seems there are a handful of "facts" already published about it that may or may not be accurate. Due to that, I want to...

An Identity Crisis: Is it Profiler or is it Extended Events?

I have been working on this article for far longer than one might think is necessary for something of this...

Creating and Using Failover Groups in Azure DBaaS – Part 1

Introduction
Hello everybody! Welcome back! One of my favorite features in Azure SQL DBaaS is Failover Groups.  I have been working...

Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports Part 4: The Squint Test

Data visualization should be iterative. You should get a good initial draft put together and then check to make sure...

Is the traditional data warehouse dead?

There have been a number of enhancements to Hadoop recently when it comes to fast interactive querying with such products...

Is the traditional data warehouse dead?

There have been a number of enhancements to Hadoop recently when it comes to fast interactive querying with such products...

Live on Channel 9 with ReadyRoll

I was interviewed in Redmond a couple months ago and the video was just published. I show and demo some...

More Beginner / Fundamentals Content

Not surprisingly, there are folks who want beginner / fundamentals presentations and blog posts. 

I put up the poll based on a...