Speaking at DataGrillen 2019
I’m delighted to announce I’m selected to speak at the 2019 edition of SQLGrillen DataGrillen. This is a German conference with the catchy tagline “Data, beer und Bratwurst”. I...
2019-01-03
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Blog Posts
What ‘Digital Transformation’ Means, and How You Can Use It to Advance Your Career (video)
I recently spoke at the GroupBy free online conference. It was loads of fun, and the recordings from the event are now available. Here’s the hour long session I...
2019-01-03
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2018 Year in Review
As we open 2019, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the past year.
Blogging 2018 was my biggest year of blogging yet! I published 28 posts and...
2019-01-02
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AzCopy finally gets a sync option, and all the world rejoices
I consider Blob Storage to be the gateway drug to Azure, because it’s a really easy way to get going...
2019-01-02
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Checking your Memory with XE
It is well known and understood that SQL Server requires a substantial amount of memory. SQL Server will also try to consume as much memory as possible from the...
2019-01-02
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Checking your Memory with XE
It is well known and understood that SQL Server requires a substantial amount of memory. SQL Server will also try...
2019-01-02
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Do 75% of data breaches really come from “insiders”?
There’s a lot of information out there on data breaches. I’ve written before about one source that I trust — the Verizon Data Breach Report (DBIR). The 2018 DBIR...
2019-01-02
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Identity in a SELECT
Always be learning right? So when I saw this I had to go HU?! That’s new. What’s going on here?
SELECT
IDENTITY(INT,...
2019-01-02 (first published: 2018-12-19)
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Make sure your nonclustered indexes are enabled
I know this post might sound obvious. This is a very rare problem. But this actually happened to me, and...
2019-01-02
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SQL Homework – January 2019 – Baselines
Happy New Year! Every year for New Years we all make a big deal of coming up with New Years...
2019-01-02
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Blogs
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
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