Building Your Data Team’s Make Up and Culture

Join Adam Jorgensen and Pragmatic works to learn about Building Your Data Team’s Make Up and Culture on Tuesday, May 5.

Excel Tip #25: Overlaying Charts

As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...

Speaker of the Month: May 2015

I finally got out to some community events last month and got to see a bunch of great speakers. Not...

SQL New Blogger Challenge Digest - Week 4

This week marks the end of Ed Leighton-Dick’s New Blogger Challenge. It’s terrific seeing everyone sticking with the challenge all month and I’m looking forward to catching up with all the...

Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Part 2 - The Shard Map Manager Database

Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Part 2 - The Shard Map Manager DatabaseMAY 1, 2015

In my last post, I discussed some...

Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Part 2 - The Shard Map Manager Database

Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Part 2 - The Shard Map Manager Database
MAY 1, 2015

In my last post, I discussed some of the concepts around Sharding and how we...

Elite VMware SQL Server Workshop Wrapup

This past week I had the pleasure of being part of the second SQL Server virtualization workshop held by VMware....

Excel BI Tip #26: Using a Data Spreadsheet or Tab

As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...

Finding Locks on Tables

Recently I needed to find a stored procedure that was creating a lock on a table and updating the table regularly. So my starting point was the table name,...

On Software and OS Lifecycle Management

An Important Rule: 
If you’re trying to convince someone to your viewpoint, insulting them generally doesn’t work. If it does anything,...