SQL Saturday Boston 2023 Slide Decks

Thanks to everyone who came to my sessions at SQL Saturday Boston 2023. I’ve added the decks to the schedule, so you can click my session and will see...

A New Word: Harmonoia

harmonoia – n. an itchy sense of dread when life feels just a hint too peaceful – when everyone seems to get along suspiciously well, with an eerie stillness...

Creating an Empty Repo in GitHub–#SQLNewBlogger

I saw someone struggling with getting started with a Visual Studio project and Azure DevOps. They got a conflict, which I’ll show and then get you started with an...

Parameterize your Databricks notebooks with widgets

Widgets provide a way to parameterize notebooks in Databricks. If you need to call the same process for different values, you can create widgets to allow you to pass...

dataMinds Connect 2023 – Raiders of the Lost ADX slides

You can find the slides for the session that I gave with Johan at dataMinds Connect 2023 at GitHub. As usual, the event was amazing. A lot of great...

A NEW’er Solution For An Old Problem: How To Gain Access To SQL Server When No DBA Around

How To Gain Access To SQL Server When No DBA

When I showed a draft of this article to a friend of mine, to...

Data Platform SLAs

Database professionals of the world – I have a question. Has your organization defined service level agreements (SLAs) for your data estate? I’m talking specifically the Recovery Point Objective...

Microsoft Fabric roadmap

Microsoft Fabric is an awesome product that has now been in public preview for five months. If you are not familiar with it, check out my recent video where...

An Important Break

I left home last Tuesday for work, heading to New Jersey for work. Over the weekend, I took a side trip to see my daughter play volleyball at university,...

Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 4

Last week we have discussed how Null Values can cause a trouble in Common Mistakes in SQL Server – Part 3. This week I would like to draw your...