Influence Skills: Live from @LearningTree London Day 4

We've made it to the final day, day 4 of Learning Tree  course 294 Influence Skills: Getting Results without  Direct Authority.

Today...

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Certifications Announced

Hi friends, Microsoft has announced the release of three new SQL 2016 certifications, based on the different working database professional’s...

SQL Server Basic - Memory

For those of you who just started to manage SQL server might wonder why SQL server use so much memory....

SQL Server and Continuous Integration

This is the 1st in a series of posts on SQL Server and Continuous Integration. Some of the tools I’ll be...

Using sp_executesql Parameters –#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

Virtualization does not equal a private cloud

I see a lot of confusion when it comes to creating a private cloud.  Many seem to think that by...

Zilch to Speaker: 2016 Summit Abstract Reviews

Steve Jones (b/t) has been asking people to post their Pass Summit submissions and the reviews that came back, along...

Influence Skills: Live From London Day 3

The main news this morning: Wales' heroic efforts at the Euros came to end last night with a 2-0 defeat...

Tempdb monitoring - Free space alert

SQL Server uses tempdb for many features, including row versioning, service broker and query execution amongst others.  During the execution...

T-SQL Tuesday #080

T-SQL Tuesday time is here again! And I’m honored to be hosting this months block party. Why you ask? T-SQL...