Resolution to “Connection Timeout Expired. [Pre-Login] initialization =18090; handshake=14281” error

This blog post is about a SQL Server connection issue that presents itself:

We were building an Availability Group (AG) at...

What Exactly is the “Data Platform” Nowadays?

[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog]
A couple of months ago I was presenting at SQL Saturday Melbourne (582) on Azure Cognitive...

What is SQL Server?

I’ve been playing around with YouTube, making some tutorial videos on SQL Server and it’s been a fun process so...

PASS BA Marathon – Spring Edition Q&A

The PASS BA Marathon Spring Edition was quite a success. A lot of people tuned in (over 400), the webinar...

Presenting 2 sessions @ SQLSaturday (Silicon Valley)

Apr 22nd I will be presenting “Re-Indexing – The quest of ultimate automation” & “Consolidated Essential Performance Health Check using PowerShell” @ SQLSaturday, Silicon...

SQL Saturday Chattanooga 2017

Second of the year, I will be presenting at SQL Saturday Chattanooga 2017.   Come see my SQL Server 2017 (Linux and Beyond) session

SQL Security Email Course

Today I am very excited to announce that I have (finally!) launched my email course covering the basics of SQL...

SQL Server 2017 is coming

It’s official: the next version of SQL Server, planned to be released this year, will be called SQL Server 2017....

SQL Server on Linux (Ubuntu)–Updating from Early CTP

I’ve been testing the SQL Server on Linux for a long time. After the recent Microsoft Data Amp event, I...

SQL Server: Functions vs. Stored Procedures to return result sets

A while back, I was building the database schema for a web application which had some reporting functionality and among other things, I had do implement logic in the...