Snowflake in Azure

Being aligned to a global cloud like Microsoft Azure you have choices. Whether that is Azure SQL Database or Azure Database for MySQL for your relational database, it does not matter...

Regression Testing SQL Saturday Naming

I started a poll today on the naming for future SQL Saturdays. You can answer here: https://twitter.com/way0utwest/status/1380524526455390209 The current votes (51 votes) look like this: That’s interesting, as I...

Daily Coping 9 Apr 2021

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Error creating Azure SQL Database

A quick post today, quite simply, the error message is: “code”: “ConflictingDatabaseOperation”,  “message”: “Operation on server x and database y is in progress.  Please wait a few minutes before trying again.” What is going on here? Well for this example (and maybe yours) I created a database...

"Think Like a Certification Exam" at Certification Saturday 2021

I'll be presenting at Certification Saturday 2021 this weekend! I'll be contributing my talk on How to "Think Like a Certification Exam" at 3pmGMT/8amPT.

Microsoft is offering any one certification exam for...

Daily Coping 8 Apr 2021

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

"Ethics in Modern Data" at the Inland Northwest Data Professionals Association

Looking forward to speaking to one of our new home turf's data organizations, the Inland Northwest Data Professionals Association. My spouse Christine and I will be presenting a talk we're...

Become a Contributor to Microsoft Docs

Starting this month, I'm leading a talk series with my teammates from the SQL Docs team at Microsoft. In this presentation we lay out just how easy it is,...

Help Build an Amazing Summit in 2021

For a good portion of my career, I’ve been going to the annual Summit in the fall with lots of my fellow SQL Server/Data Platform professionals. I have been...

Upcoming speaking engagements

The last time I presented a session was at the final PASS Summit in November 2020, so it is time to get back on the virtual conference trail again....