Watch the Growth of Walmart and Sam’s Club Across America #bigdata

This is pretty amazing. After 1970 the grow rate is astronomical for Walmart. You have got to watch this. Pretty...

What Drives Microsoft’s Data Platform Vision?

FEATURED POST BY:   Quentin Clark, Corporate Vice President, The Data Platform Group, Microsoft Corporation

If you follow Microsoft’s data platform work,...

24 Hours of PASS: Business Analytics Edition videos online

On February 5, 2014 business intelligence experts took to the virtual stage for the 24 Hours of PASS: Business Analytics Edition to...

Celebration of Seahawks Victory!

#gohawks

Murder in Richmond

I am about to set sail on a new venture with my next official whistle stop.  This year has been plenty full of whistle stops and I plan on...

Murder in Richmond

I am about to set sail on a new venture with my next official whistle stop.  This year has been...

Rollback DBCC CHECKDB REPAIR !

I learned something new today while I was listening to one of the courses on corruption authored by the master,...

SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for February 2014

I improved the file-level latency query this month and made some other small improvements to a few other queries. Rather...

Thank You!

I am humbled and honored (and more than a little horrified) to be on this list of the Best of...

Virtual Lab – Design and Setup

This is part of a series where I set up a virtual lab for testing and misc work. The other...