Future DBA Part 1

As I stated in my earlier blog on future DBA, we should learn many things as we can to be...

PowerShell to create Azure SQL DBs

Recently I have been creating many Azure SQL databases via the portal where I started to find it quite tedious. So...

SQL Saturday Minneapolis Precon – Complete Primer to SQL Server Virtualization – Coming Soon!

This is just a quick reminder to encourage you to attend my next round of all-day precon training session at the...

SQL Server Execution Plan formats

Execution plan helps in knowing how a query gets executed and troubleshooting a query which is performing poor. In SQL...

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...