Using Plaster To Create a New PowerShell Module

Chrissy, CK and I presented a pre-con at PASS Summit in Seattle last week

Tracey Boggiano T | B came along to our...

How to Upgrade an AG Cluster to Windows 2016

Starting in Windows Server 2012 R2 you now have a way to upgrade a cluster to Windows 2016.  The best...

How to Upgrade an AG Cluster to Windows 2016

Starting in Windows Server 2012 R2 you now have a way to upgrade a cluster to Windows 2016.  The best...

Things I Learned from Speaker Idol 2017 at the SQL PASS Summit

I was lucky enough to serve as a judge for the Speaker Idol competition at the SQL PASS Summit conference this year. One of the great thing about watching...

SQL Server 2017 – Interleaved Execution

I worked on testing interleaved execution with Microsoft back in January, I didn’t do much, just tested the functionality against...

Figuring out Time-Out Prone queries

Recently, I was helping one of the community attendees on the SQL Server Query Time-Out issue. Once we are done...

IF RDBMS = SQL Server, NoSQL = ???

SQL Server is, arguably, the leading relational database management system out there. With continuous development and enhancement of exciting features...

The Future of the SQLSaturday Tools

Every year when many of the SQLSaturday event leaders meet at the Summit the topic of improvements to the tools...

SQL Puzzle 4: The Beale Papers

I’ve not done a SQL puzzle for a while so thought it was getting overdue…
I set this one for my...

Notes on the 2017 PASS Summit

Just a few notes:
Weather on Wed was great, ok on Thurs, cold on Fri. Have had worse years!Felt like I...