The Mysterious Black Box of R - For the SQL Server Guy

Took a class from Jamey Johnston @ SQLSaturday #516 in Houston. Lots of great information covered. Follow him for a much...

Minimum Memory Grant Query Hint

This month Wendy Pastrick is the host for T-SQL Tuesday #78. This month we have to “learn something new and blog...

Power BI Takeover–Webinar Recording and Q&A

Last week I did a little experimental webinar that was outside our (Pragmatic Works) norm.  Instead of our traditional 1...

Speaking about Power BI @ ITPROceed 2016

I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be giving a session at this year’s ITPROceed. For those who don’t know this...

Minion CheckDB Beta

Come meet Codex! We’ve had many of you asking to be part of the Minion CheckDB beta and now is...

Re-Evaluating Best Practices

I was reading a blog post from my friend Randolph West (b/t) on Best Practices and a thought struck me.

Starting...

Use The Correct Data Type

Blog post #5 in support of Tim Ford’s (b|t) #iwanttohelp, #entrylevel. Read about it here.
Saying that you should use the...

Azure DocumentDB – Preparing, Loading and Querying Data

[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog]
Recently I have been using Azure DocumentDB (aka CosmosDB) to validate several business use cases for a...

Catching Up on The #SQLPASS Virtual Chapters

(Didn't realize until I was posting that this was my 100th post...whew!)

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A few months ago we purchased a new "smart"...

Free eBook – Modern Storage Strategies for SQL Server

I’m pleased to announce the general availability of a new free ebook collaboration with James Green from ActualTech Media called...