Lead Blocker

Blocking is just part of life I’m afraid. Because we have locks (and yes we have to have them, and...

Microsoft Products vs Hadoop/OSS Products

Microsoft’s end goal is for Azure to become the best cloud platform for customers to run their data workloads.  This...

PowerShell Virtual Group of PASS January Newsletter

We spend way too much time each month drafting the newsletters for the PowerShell Group of PASS.  But hey, we’re database people, not email mavens, and the newsletter does...

PowerShell Virtual Group of PASS January Newsletter

We spend way too much time each month drafting the newsletters for the PowerShell Group of PASS.  But hey, we’re...

PowerShell Virtual Group of PASS January Newsletter

We spend way too much time each month drafting the newsletters for the PowerShell Group of PASS.  But hey, we’re database people, not email mavens, and the newsletter does...

SQL database built-in intelligence

I sometimes forget that Microsoft watches out for us by proactively looking at the behaviour of our SQL databases in...

SQL Server 2016 SP 1

By David Postlethwaite

SQL Server 2016 SP1 was released in November 2016 only five months after the initial release.

There have been...

Using Out-GridView To Pick Parameters–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

Why Use Red Gate’s SQL Multi Script?

Someone once told me at the shop that we have plenty of software utilities laying around that could be very...

Getting My Alias in #SQLPrompt

I got a tweet after my SQL Prompt formatting piece that said a user would be interested in upgrading from...