HealthySQL 2.0 for SQLSaturday#268

  
Over the last year, I was presenting and touring the SQL Saturday circuit with my HealthySQL 2.0 presentation.  HealthySQL is...

How to check for last SQL Server backup

As a database professional, I get asked to review the health of database environments very often. When I perform these...

Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #72

It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up.  If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...

Modern Retail Architectures Built with Hadoop | Hortonworks

We’ve probably all heard the famous quote by John Wanamaker, the father of modern advertising: “Half the money I spend...

Notes From SQLSaturday #273

Speaker dinner at Spaghetti Warehouse was packed. Great crowd, not such great service. At 8:45 pm we still had not...

Oracle Tips for MSBI Devs #5: Working with Oracle on Windows Azure

As you have likely noticed in my series, Oracle Tips for MSBI Devs, I have done a lot of work...

R skills attract the highest salaries #r #getpaid4stats

Two recent salary surveys have shown that R language skills attract median salaries in excess of $110,000 in the United...

SQL Saturday OKC 309!

SQL Saturday OKC is coming up!
The event will be August 23rd, 2014!

Now is the time to get signed up. We...

SQL Server sample databases

Here are some places on the web where you can find sample databases for SQL Server. It’s nice to have...

Standard Deviations with CTE in SQL

I was working with a client recently getting the number of standard deviations a student was off the average number...