T-SQL Tuesday #90 — Bringing Continuous Delivery to a ‘brownfield’ database system

This blog post is part of  T-SQL Tuesday #90 – Shipping Database Changes.
I have decided to write about  a client’s SQL...

T-SQL Tuesday #90 – Shipping database changes

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Well, it’s T-SQL Tuesday time again  -the blog party started by Adam Machanic (blog | twitter) and this month hosted by...

T-SQL Tuesday #90: The Death of the DBA in a DevOps World Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

It’s time for another iteration of the blog party known as T-SQL Tuesday. This month’s theme is Shipping Database Changes...

Webinar Followup: End to End Security with SQL Server 2016

I recently presented a free webinar for Pragmatic Works where I discussed new security features in SQL Server 2016. You can...

Why PowerShell?

Why do I use PowerShell? Well, here’s a little back story…last year I was involved in a Pluralsight Play by Play with Jason Helmick and Jeffrey Snover for launch of...

Why PowerShell?

Why do I use PowerShell?
Well, here’s a little back story…last year I was involved in a Pluralsight Play by Play...

Monday Coffee 2017-05-08

Asking stupid questions
Oh boy have I asked some stupid questions in my time. Most recent was this question that I...

New Series – SQL Server on Linux Administration

Starting this week, I’m introducing a new series of blog posts for the SQL Server DBA on how to properly...

Power BI with Narrative Science: Look Who's Talking (Part 3: On or Off premises)

[2017-May-08] Listening to a car radio with many different talk shows available, it comes more often to my mind, that...

Query Hash Values, Plan Guides and the Query Store

I was eating dinner with Hugo Kornelis and we started talking about query hash values. You know, like everyone does...