My application to Microsoft

I have been eager to write this blog post for a while now. I want to share my experience of...

Performance-Oriented T-SQL Development in Belgium

On October 10, I will come back to present in one of my favorite SQL Server conferences – SQL Server Days...

Volunteering With PASS

I was just asked how many times I’ve been to the PASS Summit. This year will be my 12th consecutive...

Want to Win a Free @LearningTree Course? #LtreRox - @tangentc is the first ever twitter winner!!!

As regular readers of this blog will know I teach some data courses for Learning Tree. Recently Learning Tree has...

A really simple bug with SSMS

If you’re a long time IT professional or an occasional user of high or even low tech software you’ll know...

An open letter to the PASS community

PASS is our community.

It may sound a little cliche in this time of election propaganda in the US, but it’s...

Configuring Passwordless PowerShell Remoting over SSH

Open Source PowerShell has been on fire, getting tons of community support and really making people think about what’s to...

Configuring Passwordless PowerShell Remoting over SSH

Open Source PowerShell has been on fire, getting tons of community support and really making people think about what’s to come with a single language to manage a heterogenous...

Connecting to Twitter with R and RStudio

Social Media and Analytics is always an interesting combination. Twitter has an API that you can so you can connect...

DBCC CLONEDATABASE and sensitive data

Just over 2 months ago Service Pack 2 for SQL server 2014 was released. Included in this Service Pack is...