PASS Summit 2016-Thursday Part II

The second half of the day was spent talking with various speakers and attendees. I got into a great conversation...

PASS Summit Announcements: DMA/DEA

Microsoft usually has some interesting announcements at the PASS Summit, and this year was no exception.  My next few blogs...

Power BI with Narrative Science: Look Who's Talking (Part 2: Predicting the Future)

[2016-Oct-18] I read a book one time about the importance of using visual aids in teaching. They also used a well...

Selfies at Summit

Not all selfies, and not enough, but lots of changes to meet people at the Summit this week.

The other Steve...

SQL Cruise as a Speaker and Sponsor

SQL Cruise offers a number of unique opportunities for everyone involved, including speakers and sponsors. I’ve written before, severaltimes, about...

SQL Server Compression 101

The data compression feature in SQL Server can help reduce the size of the database as well as improve the performance of intensive I/O intensive workloads, especially on data...

This Week In Data – Episode 10 (Getting Started with Azure)

Welcome back to another episode of This Week In Data! If you missed our previous episodes, you can watch them...

#RedgateRocks Tonight at #sqlsummit

Tonight is the #RedgateRocks party at 1927 Events in Seattle. You’ll need to get a wristband from the Redgate Software...

Days 1,2 and 3 of PASS Summit 2016

Today is Thursday, October 27th already. For some of us the summit begins monday – with precons and PASS Volunteering related meetings...

Distributed Databases - One Way Synchronization

Applies to: xSQL Data Compare v7.0.0 – v9.0.0

Business Need

A very common organization of the data infrastructure for big companies who operate in many countries and use some type of...