Speaking at SQL Saturday #389 – Huntington Beach

I’ll be traveling to CA next month for SQL Saturday #389 – Huntington Beach as well as a Red Gate DLM...

Speaking at SQLSaturday 376 Budapest

On April 18 2015 I will be speaking at SQLSaturday #376 in Budapest!

I will be speaking about one of my...

Announcing the SQL New Blogger Challenge!

TL;DR – In April, I’m challenging myself to write (and publish!) here regularly, and I’m extending an open challenge to other new...

Announcing: SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2015

SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2015 is coming up on August 2 at LSU, register today!

Email or instant message your friends, post...

Career Ratings

I wrote the other day about measuring your career, and I gave some general advice, but I wanted to give...

Lessons Learned from a Poor-performing VIEW

It is a “common knowledge” among SQL practitioners that VIEWs don’t perform well. Recently during an application’s development I put...

Monitoring for Timeouts

The question came up at SQL Rally, “Can you use Extended Events to monitor for query timeouts?”
My immediate response was...

Achievement Unlocked: 24 Hours of Pass Session Submitted

I have finally submitted a session for a speaking engagement. Those who know me know that this is a very...

Audit Schema Change Report

In a recent article on SSG, I discussed how to use Extended Events to function in a Profiler like fashion....

Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Part 1 - What is Sharding?

Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Part 1 - What is Sharding?
MARCH 19, 2015

This week, Microsoft introduced an update to Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Preview. This update is good...