SSRS Mobile Reports – JSON error

Just a quick blog post about an error I recently encountered when trying to create a mobile report for SSRS...

The SQL Server Community Collaborative GitHub Organisation is born

My wonderful friend Chrissy LeMaire and I are the creators of two GitHub repositories for SQL Server and PowerShell called...

This Week In Data – Episode 4 (What is Slack?)

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

Azure: Creating a BACPAC from an On-Premises SQL Server Database

So to start, what’s a BACPAC?

Per the Azure documentation
When you need to create an archive of an Azure SQL database,...

Bringing Database Devops to DevConnections

Another alliteration post. Maybe I’ll make all my titles tongue twisters to test your talents?
This is my new favorite session....

Budgeting for SQL Saturdays

We’ve been doing SQLSaturdays for eight years at Louisville now. We’ve had a quite a wide range of budgets depending on...

Columnstore & Memory-Optimised Workshop in Redmond (10.31-11.02 2016)

I am so happy that I can finally announce the very first Columnstore & Memory-Optimised Tables Workshop in the USA: on...

Default Sessions – Back to Basics

Remember When…
Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to write a...

Interview Questions for Companies

In this article I will be posting interview questions by companies. Whenever I am facing any interview or someone shares...

Migrating to Azure - Quirks & Tips

Recently I have moved a dozen websites and web apps to Azure. Some are small apps used by a few...