Monday Coffee: Time Off

Nice to be back after a week off. I’ve been writing three posts a week (sometimes more) since the beginning...

PSDay.UK Tickets are on sale

Following a lot of hard work by the organising folks Gael Colas, Ebru Cucen, Daniel Krebs and Johnathan Medd, we...

Building Your Brand and Becoming a Thought Leader Session Materials

Thank you to everyone that attending my session today at SQL Saturday #649 in Jacksonville, Florida! It was a packed...

Training and tips to get certified with Microsoft (Part 3)

Welcome back, thanks for keep on reading me, and for the ones who read for the first time, welcome.With this third post I'll keep answering the question Where did...

Just Say No to Social Engineering Memes

These memes, from a security and privacy perspective, are nothing but trouble. Here’s an example I just saw a friend...

SQLskills is Giving Away Free Training!

SQLskills is giving away free training for their performance tuning and optimization classes. My entry for the competition is below. If you decide to enter for yourself, entries are...

Training and tips to get certified with Microsoft (Part 3)

Welcome back, thanks for keep on reading me, and for the ones who read for the first time, welcome.

With this...

SQL Server vs Oracle: Convert string to date

Over this week we’ve looked at the difference between Oracle and SQL Server from a few different angles. We’ve looked...

Microsoft Azure – How to create a virtual machine (VM) with Reserved Public IP (VIP)

In my previous blog, we learnt that a Virtual IP (VIP) get lost or changed when we stop or deallocate...

What-If Analysis in Power BI Desktop

One of the most talked about features previewed during the Microsoft Data Insights Summit in the previous June was the...