Data Quality Matching in SQL Server

Every IT person is more than introduced to the problems of integration – in the ideal perfect world we could join...

Friday Followup For May 2, 2014

It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...

Hekaton 2014 – The Saviour vs The Lost Cause

With the release of the SQL Server 2014, Microsoft has finally unleashed their long-time in work In-Memory solution (codenamed XTP...

Reblog: April 25 to May 1

Photo credit – Jenn and Tony Bot
Sometimes old stuff is just as cool as new stuff. Over the past few years,...

Sabbatical Decisions

My employer, Red Gate Software, offers a sabbatical to their employees, and this year I’m taking mine. I’ll be gone from...

Speaker of the Month, May 2014

Whoa! Another month gone by already? I guess I better pick a speaker of the month then. I went to...

Speaking at #SQLSat307 in Iowa City!

I just received confirmation I will be speaking at SQL Saturday 307 in Iowa City on June 7th!

 I will be...

Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 4

I spent some more time last night thinking about the event and marketing it. Biased I am, but I think...

Continuous Delivery Visualization

A good one, one of the better diagrams I’ve seen.

From http://markosrendell.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/practical-benefits-of-continuous-delivery/
Now if we can get tooling and processes to make...

Real heavyweights: Float vs Decimal, the Thrilla in Precision

This is a followup to a previous post where I likened SQL Server float datatype to Muhammad Ali. Specifically, I...