Pausing the Learning for March

In my last update, I was disappointed with my February progress. Busy with life and work, I didn’t do much...

Writing my presentation 2: Designing the presentation

This series is about my process for writing my upcoming presentation at SQL Saturday Chicago #825.

Today’s goals
Today I’m going to...

There is Now A Delete Activity in Data Factory V2!

Data Factory can be a great tool for cloud and hybrid data integration. But since its inception, it was less...

Writing my presentation part 1: The brainstorm/dump

For this session, I’m relying on a mixture of previous blog posts and new material/demos that I’ll have to write....

Can you speak at my User Group or Conference? No? Sweet As – can you help people register please?

This blog post is not going to be a technical one…. but it’s about technology – well more accurately about bringing...

Midlands #PASS April Meeting with Matt Gordon (@SQLatSpeed)

Midlands PASS in Columbia, SC, will be hosting Matt Gordon (website | twitter) for our next meeting, which is scheduled for...

Canadian SQL Saturday speaking events

I am pleased to announce that I will be speaking at two separate SQL Saturdays in March and April of...

Pushing SQL Change Automation Code to Azure DevOps

Making changes on your own system for a SQL Change Automation project is great, but if you’re the only one...

Disabling and enabling triggers

I tend to feel that a lot of people who use triggers don’t really understand them. That said, every now...

How Your Hypervisor Can Impact Your CPU

Recently I had a client complain of chronic high CPU utilization. The performance of their SQL Server had degraded, and...