Books of 2016
I set myself a reading goal of 75 books for last year, and managed 73. I’m not overly happy about that, there were months where I barely managed to...
2017-01-03
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Blog Posts
Books of 2016
I set myself a reading goal of 75 books for last year, and managed 73. I’m not overly happy about...
2017-01-03
508 reads
Checking DBCC CHECKDB
I hope you run consistency checks on your databases, if you are not currently doing this you probably will want to....
2017-01-03
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Clustered Columnstore Index really hates Updates
First a little background. I’m working on a large fact table that behaves itself as a slowly changing type 2...
2017-01-03 (first published: 2016-12-23)
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Epic Life Quests
It is easy to get caught up in the daily details of life and not take the time to reflect on longer term goals and accomplishments.
Inspired by Brent Ozar...
2017-01-03
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Launching #TAPtips – Valuable Tips from Decades of Practice
Launching #TAPtips Blog Posts While forming Datalere, Carlos and I wanted to continue with our contributions to the Denver, Colorado...
2017-01-03
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My Interview published on Microsoft Technet Blog
Wish you a Happy New Year to all the readers and technical enthusiasts!!!
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wikininjas/2017/01/02/interview-with-a-sql-server-expert-and-wiki-ninja-prashanth-jayaram/
My interview is published on the Microsoft Technet blog...
2017-01-03
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ReadyRoll Development
This is the sixth part in the series: SQL Server and Continuous Integration. This post will illustrate the power of ReadyRoll when...
2017-01-03 (first published: 2016-12-23)
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2016 – That was a Year :-)
Its the time of year for reflection and I have had the most amazing 2016, I am blessed that I love...
2017-01-02
502 reads
Grateful to have been a Microsoft MVP
A couple of weeks ago I received the disappointing but expected news that I wasn’t renewed as a Microsoft Data...
2017-01-02
441 reads
Blogs
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
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