Seattle SQL Pro Workshop 2017

Seattle SQL Pro Workshop 2017
October is a great time of year for the SQL Server and Data professional. There are...

10 Questions To Spark Conversation At Your Next SQL Event

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Here's a word for word transcription of a conversation I've had a hundred times over:

"Hi I'm Bert.  What do you do?"
"I'm ____ and I'm a SQL developer."
"That's cool,...

10 Questions To Spark Conversation At Your Next SQL Event

Photo by rawpixel.com on UnsplashHere’s a word for word transcription of a conversation I’ve had a hundred times over:
“Hi I’m Bert.  What do...

Non Profit Umbrella Org – Good Idea?

Note: Published too soon, so lots of edits from the first version. Sorry for any confusion.
I had a question from...

SQL Server: What will REPAIR do?

So I had a corruption issue and I was thinking about running repair but I wanted to know what would...

UNDERCOVER TOOLBOX: Find Untrusted Foreign Keys and Orphaned Key data

SQL Server tracks untrusted Foreign keys in sys.Foreign keys with a column called is_not_trusted, there may be a number of...

Database Fundamentals #13: Data Entry Through T-SQL

T-SQL provides lots of functions that help to make data entry through T-SQL much more powerful. Over time you won’t...

Dynamic Data Masking – Tracking all masked columns in your database

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I have presented on Making Developers lives easier with SQL Server 2016 multiple times over the last couple of months,...

Event Organisers

Over the last few weeks I’ve spoken at a few conferences, the last of those being SQL Relay.
For those of...

Monday Night Networking at Summit 2017

Next week is the PASS Summit in Seattle. Thousands of SQL Server professionals are going, many coming Sunday or Monday...