"What did it take to become a MVP?"

@william_a_dba what did it take to become a MVP?— kennyb7322 (@kennyb7322) March 3, 2020

This tweet made me pause. I'll explain.Backstory (skip if you're not interested):On Sunday March 1,...

Modernizing Your T-SQL: Trimming Strings

This is one of several posts on modernizing T-SQL code with new features and functionality available in SQL Server. Last year, you finally retired the last of your SQL...

Modernizing Your T-SQL: Trimming Strings

This is one of several posts on modernizing T-SQL code with new features and functionality available in SQL Server.
Last year, you finally retired the last of your SQL Server...

T-SQL Tuesday #124 – Query Store Summary

Happy St. Patrick’s Day (are you wearing something green)!  For March I asked everyone to blog something related to Query Store, here is a summary of in alphabetical order...

T-SQL Tuesday #124 Query Store and Spin Locks #tsql2sday

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation comes from Tracy Boggiano  and she’s asking us to write about our experiences with Query Store. I thought about what I should write, I’m...

Azure SQL DB – An instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server.

The full message when connecting to your Azure SQL Database is: Reason: An instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The public data endpoint on this...

Extended Events: system_health and a Long Running Query

Wouldn’t it be great to just quickly and easily take a look at your system to see if you had any queries that ran for a long time, but,...

Improved VMware vCenter Performance Metric Logging

By default, the vSphere vCenter deployment contains a virtual appliance where the VMware management and orchestration platform, vCenter, resides and runs from. The default performance metric statistics collection interval...

Learning some DAX

I’ve not done much BI work in my career, other than simple aggregates in reports. I’ve wanted to tackle projects, but I’ve rarely had a chance to spend time...

Power BI Sharing

There are many ways to share the dashboards, reports, and datasets that you create in Power BI. Below I’ll compare all such options (there are twelve!). First make sure...