Want to Win a Free @LearningTree Course? #LtreRox - @tangentc is the first ever twitter winner!!!

As regular readers of this blog will know I teach some data courses for Learning Tree. Recently Learning Tree has...

Mastering Index – Introduction

One of the most interesting and talked about topic in database field is Index. I am writing this Series of...

My application to Microsoft

I have been eager to write this blog post for a while now. I want to share my experience of...

I’m speaking at SQL PASS 2016 (Speaker Idol)

It’s always been my dream to speak at SQL PASS Summit. It’s a tough egg to crack. In my experience...

This Week In Data – Episode 6 (Why Companies are Choosing Power BI)

Welcome back to another episode of This Week In Data! If you missed our previous episodes, you can watch them...

DBCC CLONEDATABASE and sensitive data

Just over 2 months ago Service Pack 2 for SQL server 2014 was released. Included in this Service Pack is...

An open letter to the PASS community

PASS is our community.

It may sound a little cliche in this time of election propaganda in the US, but it’s...

Connecting to Twitter with R and RStudio

Social Media and Analytics is always an interesting combination. Twitter has an API that you can so you can connect...

Query shortcuts in SQL Server Management Studio

Tired of typing out the same queries day after day? Well query shortcuts in SSMS are for you!
Following on from...

Power BI Desktop hosted on premises with SSRS 2016

UPDATE 2016-10-27: the preview is available as a VM in the Azure Marketplace. More information can be found on the...