What Chocolatey Packages Does a Business Intelligence Developer Need?

I’m getting a new work laptop next week: Hooray!! ?? I’m going to have to install A LOT of software: Opportunity! ?? Problem: I have a lot of meetings...

What Chocolatey Packages Does a Business Intelligence Developer Need?

I’m getting a new work laptop next week: Hooray!! ?? I’m going to have to install A LOT of software: Opportunity! ?? Problem: I have a lot of meetings...

Activate Conference 2019: Databases 101 for the Aspiring App Dev Session Info and Resources

A special hello if you're visiting this blog post during or after my workshop on Thursday afternoon, April 4 at the Louisiana Tech Park as park of the Activate Conference...

dbatools for the accidental DBA

dbatools is a very well known tool within the SQL Server community, and probably most of the production DBA’s are...

Disk Space and SQL Server

Disk Space in SQL Server
One of the frequently required job functions of the database administrator is to track disk space...

Speaking Again at the Techno Security and Digital Forensics Conference

I’ve once again been selected to speak at the Techno Security and Digital Forensics Conference in Myrtle Beach, SC, this year. I’m on the calendar for Wednesday, speaking again...

Two more of my presentations

I recently made available two more presentations that you might find helpful.  Feel free to download them and present them to others (adding a line that you got them...

Why I Believe In In-Person Training

I was recently asked a question from a manager regarding someone on my team when I requested to send them to a training experience: 

Are there CBT based alternatives that...

Certification on Orchestrating Big Data with Azure Data Factory

I took a break from blogging this week to finish the course for and get certified with Orchestrating Big Data...

Checking Open Ports in Azure

Let’s be honest here, data security is really important to me.  Some people probably think that I go to extremes...