Pausing the Learning for March

In my last update, I was disappointed with my February progress. Busy with life and work, I didn’t do much...

VMware vExpert for 2019

I’m honored and humbled to be awarded the VMware vExpert award for the seventh year in a row! Thank you...

Writing my presentation 2: Designing the presentation

This series is about my process for writing my upcoming presentation at SQL Saturday Chicago #825.

Today’s goals
Today I’m going to...

Can you speak at my User Group or Conference? No? Sweet As – can you help people register please?

This blog post is not going to be a technical one…. but it’s about technology – well more accurately about bringing...

Creating custom SQL Server Helm charts

In my previous post I went through how to deploy SQL Server to Kubernetes using Helm in which I used...

Finding single use plans in the plan cache

A single use plan is an entry in the SQL Server plan cache that was only used once. When a...

Writing my presentation part 1: The brainstorm/dump

For this session, I’m relying on a mixture of previous blog posts and new material/demos that I’ll have to write....

#DataInDevon – Getting up to speed with PowerShell or spend a day with one of four other MVPs :-)

Saturday 27th April is Global Azure Bootcamp day
What’s Global Azure Bootcamp?
The website says it best

…. communities will come together once...

Canadian SQL Saturday speaking events

I am pleased to announce that I will be speaking at two separate SQL Saturdays in March and April of...

How to get Live Execution Plan using Extended Events

Introduction
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you were supposed to troubleshoot a long running expensive query that...