I’m Speaking at SQL Saturday Oregon
I am honored to have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Oregon this year. They always have so many sessions submitted with only 40 slots available. I was...
2019-10-29
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SQL Swimmer
Updated Data Profiling in Power BI Desktop
In this month’s (October 2019) release of Power BI Desktop, they have added a ton of cool stuff, you can read all about it via the Power BI Blog. ...
2019-10-22 (first published: 2019-10-15)
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September on the Road
I am so excited for the next three weeks. This is a trip that has been in the planning for nearly 2 years. I have always loved travelling and...
2019-09-01
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Renewed As A Microsoft Data Platform MVP
I am so excited and honored to have been awarded my second Data Platform MVP from Microsoft on Monday. It’s been a crazy busy 18 months and the next...
2019-07-03
11 reads
Speaking at SQL Saturday Raleigh
I am happy to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Raleigh this Saturday, April 27, 2019. I have been part of the organizing team for this...
2019-04-22
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My Very First Azure SQL Database
I recently delivered my very first SQL Saturday pre-con for SQL Saturday Richmond on Friday, March 29, 2019. You can read about that adventure here. As part of the...
2019-04-08
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Delivering My First Pre-Con
I didn’t announce this before it happened because I didn’t want to “jinx” myself, but I am happy to say that it’s finally happened. I have delivered my very...
2019-04-06
46 reads
Using Power BI To Track My Activities
As a MS MVP one of the things you have to do is keep track of all the “things” you...
2019-02-20
187 reads
Using Power BI To Track My Activities
As a MS MVP one of the things you have to do is keep track of all the “things” you do for community, whether it be volunteering, organizing, speaking,...
2019-02-20
8 reads
Speaking at SQL Saturday Chicago
I am so excited and honored to announce that I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Chicago on...
2019-02-15
100 reads
Blogs
Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
By Steve Jones
I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
By gbargsley
If you’ve been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
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SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
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How Long is a Long I/O?
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T-SQL Trigonometric Functions in SQL Server
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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