Changing Course On Learning

With all the new stuff on the Microsoft Data Platform, it’s really hard to keep up with it all. I had...

What Do You Mean There is No Current Database Backup?!?

Yet another late night/early morning tale...

The LOG backups for multiple databases on a server failed overnight (not all databases, but...

Atlanta BI Edition SQL Saturday Precon

The explosion of Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities coming from Microsoft these days have left many of us in a frenzy. ...

Goodness-of-Fit Testing with SQL Server, part 3.1: Skewness, Kurtosis and the Jarque-Bera Test

By Steve Bolton
…………In the last installment of this series of amateur self-tutorials on using SQL Server to identify probability distributions,...

Why I Joined Microsoft

If you follow me in social media, you may have seen my announcement that I’ve joined Microsoft. Late in October...

Idera #SQLChat with John Morehouse

Please join Idera tomorrow for a #SQLChat on Twitter. The December #SQLChat will take place Tuesday, December 9 at 11...

Webinar – Lowering SQL Server Licensing Costs

On Tuesday, December 15th, Bala Narasimhan and I are presenting a webinar where we will walk through real-world examples that...

Ending My Loop in PowerShell Early

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

Sentiment Analysis with Power BI

I was recently asked by a customer to help them do some Text analysis of course evaluation data. They wanted...

DBA Myths: Database file extentions

Every now and again I hear or read that the only file extensions for a SQL Server database are mdf,...