PASS Summit 2015 Presentations

I am proud to be offering several training opportunities at the upcoming PASS Summit in Seattle, WA during the week...

Reading Session Data from Memory

In this article, I introduce the topic of reading session data from memory along with some of the pitfalls and some words of caution.
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SQL Server Contracting – The first 14 months (or so)

Crikey, where did that time go! I have been so busy adjusting to my new work life style I have...

The Whirlwind That Is October – Part 1

October has been such a whirlwind of PASS activity for me. Two SQL Saturdays and the PASS Summit. This post...

“That little green arrow.” or “My code used to work but now I’m getting a debug error.”

If you’ve worked with SSMS for any length of time this will look awfully familiar:
SSMS 2008R2

SSMS 2012 +

This little green...

Better Practices for Reading Event_file Targets

In this article, I am going to address some better practices for Reading Event_file targets attached to an XEvent Session.
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Better Practices for Reading Event_file Targets

I have demonstrated over the past couple of articles the basics involved with reading the

event_file target along with a more...

Copying data from Azure Blob Storage

In a previous blog I talked about copying on-prem data to Azure Blob Storage (Getting data into Azure Blob Storage). ...

Finding the error from a failed job.

This is a fairly simple one once you’ve seen it, but then so are lots of things :). Let’s say you...

My PASS Summit 2015

Its just a bit over a week until PASS Summit 2015 will start. If you are a Microsoft Data Platform...