Speaking at SQL Saturday Atlanta (#733)
I am so honored and humbled to have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Atlanta (#733) on May 19,...
2018-03-29
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SQL Swimmer
SQL Saturday Iceland–What an Adventure!
Two Saturdays ago, I was in Reykjavik, Iceland, speaking at my very first international SQL Saturday. WOW! Is all I...
2018-03-19
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SQL Saturday Richmond
SQL Saturday Richmond is just 5 days away and this will be the second time I have been selected to...
2018-03-19
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Using the Analysis Services Execute DDL Task
My grandfather used to say, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” I always thought it was a...
2018-03-08 (first published: 2018-03-02)
4,762 reads
I’m Speaking At SQL Saturday Richmond
I am so excited, I was selected to speak at SQL Saturday Richmond on March 24, 2018, in Richmond, Virginia.
SQL...
2018-02-06
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Lessons Learned From SQL Saturday Cleveland
I can finally breath a sigh of relief, my first time of presenting two sessions back to back is finally...
2018-02-06
253 reads
I’m a Speaking Mentor!
I am so excited to announce that I have been accepted as a speaking mentor on SpeakingMentors.com!
I struggled for so...
2018-01-31
490 reads
MVP Data Platform
Holy Cow! I still can’t believe it, I was awarded the Microsoft MVP – Data Platform today. I guess I really...
2018-01-04
607 reads
Kicking Off The New Year With A Bang
Back in 2015, I said would think about speaking in my #TSQL2sday #61 post. Well here it is 2018 and...
2018-01-03
385 reads
New Session: Data Types Do Matter
I started speaking on a semi-regular basis this year after many years of trepidation. You can read about my first...
2017-11-17
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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...
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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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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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