Time for SQL in the City Summit–Chicago

This week is the last live SQL in the City Summit this year. It’s this Friday at the Microsoft office...

Upcoming #SQLChat on Making the Most of Conferences

This month’s #SQLChat is hosted by Rie Irish (twitter | blog). It’s a timely topic: Making the Most of Conferences. With...

Last week reading (2018-10-21)

DevOps Terms – and Why They Matter to Database Specialists Find out what is Scrum, Continuous Deployment, TDD and others from...

Notes from SQLSaturday #801 (2018)

We wrapped up our 12th SQLSaturday here in Orlando two weeks ago. Overall things went well. Registration was just a...

SQL Server 2019

I have written about 2017 here, Last month at Microsoft Ignite FL on September 2018, Microsoft announce they are going to...

Sharding: Horizontal Scaling in Azure SQL Database

David has produced a talk all about Sharding. Or if you prefer  horizontally scaling your Azure SQL database.

You can view...

SQL Server – Reading BACPAC Files

If you have been reading my blog for a while now you would know that a common technique to move...

Contextual View Part II or how to hide sensitive data

In this article I continue to explore the ways to secure the data via contextual views and describe the technique...

Creating Wait stats widget on Azure Data Studio for macOS

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft released a new multi-platform tool called Azure Data Studio, this tool is the final...

Step-by-Step: How to Trigger an Email Alert from Windows Performance Monitor

Windows Performance Counter Alerts can be configured to be triggered on any Performance Monitor (Perfmon) Counter through the use of...