My Current Training Courses on Pluralsight!

Here’s a run down of the Linux training that I have available on Pluralsight!

Just getting started! 
Understanding and Using Essential Tools...

SQL Server on Linux – External Memory Pressure with 2019 CTP2

In this blog post we’re going to revisit how SQL Server on Linux responds to external memory pressure. This is a very long post, and it ends with me...

Azure Cosmos DB Free Trial – walk through of Gremlin API for Graph

After the 2018 Microsoft Ignite event, Microsoft announced a free trial of Azure Cosmos DB. For those who are eager...

I’m Speaking – Denver Dev Day Fall 2018

Denver Dev Day Fall 2018 is a free event organized by volunteers and hosted at the Microsoft campus in the DTC. It’s a full day to learn from industry...

It’s a wrap – SQL Saturday Denver #774

SQL Saturday Denver #774 has come and gone. It’s hard to believe how quick things went – well there were a...

The Developer’s Guide to Azure–A Good Overview

Someone sent me a link a few weeks back  about a free book from Microsoft. It’s the Developer’s Guide to...

Auto-Scaling Azure SQL DB

When I was presenting my Azure SQL Database session at DataRelay (used to be SQLRelay) I was asked (over coffee)...

Power BI Dashboards, Reports, and Datasets with the SQL Chefs

This week I had the opportunity to learn about dashboards, reports, and datasets in Power BI using the best kind...

The SQL Agents’ view of SQL Server

I recently came across a really odd issue with the SQL Agent, there were two agent jobs attached to one...

Which is faster? IN (list) or IN (SELECT FROM Temp)

If you’ve done much with IN (list) then you’ve realized that it basically translates out to
col=val1 OR col=val2 OR...