Book Review – The Truthful Art

I’m participating in the #vizBookClub, a great idea by the data visualization community. In short, we read a book about...

Resolution to “Connection Timeout Expired. [Pre-Login] initialization =18090; handshake=14281” error

This blog post is about a SQL Server connection issue that presents itself:

We were building an Availability Group (AG) at...

Microsoft Data Amp event announcements

Yesterday was the Microsoft Data Amp event where a bunch of very exciting announcements were made:
SQL Server vNext CTP 2.0...

What is SQL Server?

I’ve been playing around with YouTube, making some tutorial videos on SQL Server and it’s been a fun process so...

Thoughts about the Microsoft Data Amp Announcements

Microsoft conducted a live event called Microsoft Data Amp to announce a number of key features and releases for SQL...

Presenting 2 sessions @ SQLSaturday (Silicon Valley)

Apr 22nd I will be presenting “Re-Indexing – The quest of ultimate automation” & “Consolidated Essential Performance Health Check using PowerShell” @ SQLSaturday, Silicon...

Using Twitter with VS Code

So today I saw this tweet from Mathias in reply to Stefan and Amanda

 
That looks cool. Twitter in VS Code, one...

SQL Server 2017 is coming

It’s official: the next version of SQL Server, planned to be released this year, will be called SQL Server 2017....

SQL Server on Linux (Ubuntu)–Updating from Early CTP

I’ve been testing the SQL Server on Linux for a long time. After the recent Microsoft Data Amp event, I...

Upcoming SQLSaturdays in Alberta, Canada

Taking a short break from the Database Fundamentals series of the last few weeks, I’d like to mention some upcoming...