Speaker of the Month: February 2016

I’ve been a little remiss on this. I just haven’t been getting out to see people speak for a while...

Reblog: SSIS Performance Testing

I had to do some performance testing for an MSSQLTips article and I thought I’d share the framework I used in...

Limitation of In-Memory OLTP in SQL Server 2016 – Merge not supported with memory tables as target

Hi friends, in this post we will discussed another limitation of In-Memory OLTP that in-memory tables as a Target in...

SQL Family: The Wonder Years

Last week, Bill Wolf aka @SQLWareWolf and I somehow got onto the topic of High School pictures. So in jest, I...

Limiting Database Permissions for DLM Dashboard

I was talking with some of our support people recently about permissions on DLM Dashboard. A client was having issues,...

Text Mining Loch Ness Monster Sightings

Text Mining with RapidMiner for Loch Ness Monster Sightings
Text mining involves pulling root words from text in a system.  In...

DocumentDB Tutorial 2 – Working with Documents

Join Eitan Blumin in the next video of his DocumentDB Tutorials. This time learn how to work with the documents...

Moving to Open Live Writer

I’ve used Windows Live Writer for almost as long as I’ve been blogging (mid 2007 or so). It’s worked well...

SQL Server Security Principals Lightning Round Presentation

Thanks for attending tonight's joint meeting of the Baton Rouge .NET/SQL/PowerBI User Groups, which was sponsored by Idera!

I presented a...

Azure SQL Database monitoring

Even though an Azure SQL Database stores all data on the Azure cloud, it does not mean that your options for managing...