What’s the little popup window in #SQLPrompt?

Awhile back I was working in SSMS and saw this window.

It threw me off since I was trying to write...

This Week in Data – Episode 14 (Hacking Your Professional Development)

Welcome back to another episode of This Week In Data! If you missed our previous episodes, you can watch them...

Query Tuning 101: Debugging a procedure

I was recently asked to help tune a stored procedure that has been historically taking between 55 and 60 seconds...

Reflecting on Ten Years of SQLSaturday

It’s hard to believe it’s been more than 10 years since we started the planning for the first event in...

Using OUTPUT with a field list.

I recently wrote an article for SQL Server Central about using OUTPUT. In case you aren’t aware OUTPUT is a...

SQL Server & Containers – Part Three

This post follows on from Part Two in which we created a custom docker image. We’ll now look at pushing...

CISL 1.4.1 is released

Just one month later after the 1.4.0 release of CISL, I am here again blogging about the new release 1.4.1...

SQL Server 2016 SP1 – Rocking RELEASE!!!

Last week, I did a presentation titled "SQL Server 2016 SP1 – Rocking RELEASE!!!" to Singapore SQL User Group. The Presentation was...

Rate a Session for GroupBy

One of the things that I struggle with is understanding whether a session at a conference like a SQL Saturday...

Analytics Platform System 2016 Release

Microsoft has a new release for the Analytics Platform System (APS).  This appliance update is called APS 2016 and has...