Hello Cloud Goodbye DBA

No, not quite. I have had many interesting conversations around this topic and I don’t think (personal opinion) that DBAs...

PASS FY2019 Budget Notes Updated

PASS has updated the notes supporting the FY 2019 budget to answer the questions I raised in my earlier post....

Redgate University is Growing

There isn’t a degree to be gained, but you can get a lot of information about Redgate products at Redgate...

Relational databases aren’t the problem

Content warning: This is the first of two rebuttal essays, about why someone is wrong on the Internet. It is...

Remember the Default Window

I ran across a question recently from a user about why they had strange results from a windowing query. This...

SQL Server Automatic Tuning in the Real-World

In SQL Server 2016 we saw Query Store.  Query Store was a game changer to help database administrators identify troublesome queries. Query Store helps DBAs make those queries run...

PASS Summit 2018 – Scheduled Released

The “full” PASS Summit 2018 schedule has been released. This includes the regular sessions along with the pre-conference sessions which...

PASS Summit 2018 – Scheduled Released

The “full” PASS Summit 2018 schedule has been released. This includes the regular sessions along with the pre-conference sessions which were released a couple of months ago.

Wednesday thru Friday...

Azure Data Warehouse and 60 Servers

In today’s segment of Azure Every Day, I’d like to talk about Azure Data Warehouse and to help you understand...

Best Way to Fix Corrupted SQLite Database

Corruption is one of the common scenarios nowadays. It can occur in any platform or file format, for that matter. Similarly, Android SQLite database can be corrupted due to...