May 13th - Standardized SQL Installations - Script Review & Demo

May 13th – Standardized SQL Installations – Script Review & Demo

This session is mostly demo-focused. I will cover prerequisites for scripts and show how to do multiple SQL Server installations using scripts and demonstrate how to Streamline SQL Server...

May 13th – Standardized SQL Installations – Script Review & Demo

This session is mostly demo-focused. I will cover prerequisites for scripts and show how to do multiple SQL Server installations...

Building Your Data Team’s Make Up and Culture

Join Adam Jorgensen and Pragmatic works to learn about Building Your Data Team’s Make Up and Culture on Tuesday, May 5.

Speaker of the Month: May 2015

I finally got out to some community events last month and got to see a bunch of great speakers. Not...

Announcing Minion Enterprise: the new SQL Server Management Solution

A company with more than one SQL Server instance has no built-in way to gather and report on maintenance, backup, and configuration...

SQL New Blogger Challenge Digest - Week 4

This week marks the end of Ed Leighton-Dick’s New Blogger Challenge. It’s terrific seeing everyone sticking with the challenge all month and I’m looking forward to catching up with all the...

Utilizing the power of table parameters to reduce IO, improve performance, decrease pollution, and achieve world peace...

I was dealing with a challenging dynamic sql procedure that allowed a .NET app to pass in a list of...

Excel BI Tip #26: Using a Data Spreadsheet or Tab

As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...

SQL Server in Microsoft Azure: How to gain performance by flexibility and save costs at the same time