Join me and Kalen Delaney today for 24HOP

I’m excited to be monitoring Kalen’s session on concurrency. The session is today and is titled “Locking, Blocking, Versions: Concurrency...

Kilt Day! PASS Summit 2016, Thursday

Thursday at the PASS Summit is Kilt Day.
This means you should wear a kilt. Whether you do it in support...

PASS Board Update

Time for another update.
The minutes for the June in-person meeting have been approved and are now ready for your information....

Reminder: #SQLChat at lunch today

This is a reminder that we’ll having a #SQLChat this afternoon at 12 PM EDT. Here are the details:
SQLChat: Do...

Sql Server – Statistics (Create, Update and delete Statistics)

Sql Server – Statistics (Create, Update and delete Statistics)

If you are reading this Article, I assume that you know the basics...

This Week in Data – Episode 3 (What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?)

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

24 Hours of PASS Summit 2016 Preview Edition this Wednesday

I’m very excited to be presenting in the opening slot for this year’s 24 Hours of PASS – Summit Preview Edition...

Accidental DBAs, the Developer Edition

I recently spoke at the OKC SQL Saturday. I had an wonderful time and the organizers, volunteers and other speakers...

Calculating DTU in Azure SQL Database

A few months ago, I posted a question over on ask.sqlservercentral.com.  In a nutshell, it was how do you measure...

Copying an on-premise Database to an Azure SQL Database

Continuing my exploration of Azure the next logical step seemed to be copying an on-premise database up to the cloud....