Announcing Minion Enterprise: the new SQL Server Management Solution

A company with more than one SQL Server instance has no built-in way to gather and report on maintenance, backup, and configuration...

April Blogger Challenge 3 – Filtered Indexes

The April Blogger Challenge is from Ed Leighton-Dick and aimed at new bloggers, but anyone is welcome. I’m trying to...

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 Database
MAY 1, 2015

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

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...

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...