Pesky Percent File Growth

As DBAs we all know setting your file growth to grow by percent is not optimal.  It can cause all...

Hiring Productive Employees – #TAPtips

Starting a business is easy. Have an idea, some skills, a customer or two, and you are in business. However,...

My First SQL Saturday – As A Speaker!

I am so honored and excited to have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Richmond on March 18, 2017.
I...

A Letter To A Younger Yates

Hello much younger Yates. Hope you’ve been doing well. Why don’t you pull up a chair and stay for a...

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SQL Server 2016 - AlwaysOn
An availability group supports a failover environment for a discrete set of user databases, known...

SQL Server 2008 RTM - Maintenance Plans need Integration Services installed

The tail end of last week was a bit of a throwback week for me. For reasons that I’ll not...

Speaking at Techorama 2017

I’m delighted to announce that I’m selected as a speaker for the Techorama event.

Techorama is a developer congress focusing (but...

Another 5 Power BI Tips

If you’ve been at least paying attention to my blog a little bit, you’ve probably noticed I occasionally blog about...

Parse Dynamics AX Context Info

In this article I will only be discussing the AX product and an easy tweak to make troubleshooting that product much easier from the perspective of the database administrator....

Parse Dynamics AX Context Info

Dynamics AX and SQL Server
More and more I am seeing clients requiring assistance with the Microsoft Dynamics Suite. Each of...