SQLSaturday #1000! Join Oregon Virtually this Saturday

Honored to be a part of not just SQLSaturday #1000, but the long proud history of the free community series of SQLSaturdays celebrating their 1000th+ event. (I spoke at...

Spoooky SQL at the Baton Rouge SQL/.NET Campfire Stories!

Enjoyed the heck out of tonight's October special edition of the virtual Baton Rouge .NET and SQL User Groups meeting, where we had a lot of active chat, three...

Join SQLSat Memphis Virtually This Saturday

Looking forward to presenting at SQLSaturday Memphis virtually this weekend!
Both my wife and I are on the schedule for Saturday, and the organizers chose interesting nontechnical topics for both...

Prepping the local SSD D: in an Azure VM for SQL Server TempDB

One of the few good, safe uses for the local SSD D: volume of an Azure VM is for SQL Server TempDB data and log files. There's a gotcha....

All-Day at Virtual Houston Tech Fest 2020

It's a full day at Houston Tech Fest 2020 for us. Speaking at Houston TechFest is an decade-long annual tradition interrupted only by a hurricane and one year where I...

New Microsoft Azure Certifications presentation at BRSSUG

Hi internet! 
Thanks to the surprising number of you who joined our first ever virtual meeting of the Baton Rouge .NET and SQL Server User Groups tonight!
I presented on the...

SQLSaturday Auckland: Certification Exams Inside Out this Weekend!

Looking forward to virtually presenting at SQLSaturday Auckland 2020 this weekend! I'll be presenting at 10:45AM Auckland time on Saturday, but that's 5:45pm Friday evening where I am in Central...

Ethics in Modern Data at the Houston SQL Server and BI User Groups, July 2020

On July 14, Christine and I presented at the Houston SQL Server and BI User Groups' virtual meeting. Our joint presentation is one of our favorites to present, Ethics in Modern Data. 

Thanks...

On Dynamic Ports, Named Instances, and Firewalls

Recently I had a client and their vendor trying to configure a firewall for a new installation of SQL Server 2019 on Windows Server 2019.Connections to the SQL Server...

Presenting on Ethics in Modern Data at Houston HASSUG/SQL BI Group July 2020 Meeting

Looking forward to presenting with my wife Christine Assaf our talk on Ethics in Modern Data at the Houston Area SQL Group and BI Group's virtual meeting on Tuesday...