Announcing: SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2015

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

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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...

Azure SQLDatabase v12 Premium Editions and Available Cores

A couple of days ago, during the great SQL Unplugged live show, I have asked a couple of questions the...

Free Professional Advice on Setting up Continuous Integration for Sql Server Databases

Calling all London/Sussex Sql Developers does this sound like you? Would you like to set up Continuous Integration or Continuous...

Free Professional Advice on Setting up Continuous Integration for Sql Server Databases

Calling all London/Sussex Sql Developers does this sound like you?
Would you like to set up Continuous Integration or Continuous DeploymentDo...