Speaking

A place to collect abstracts & links to presentations I’ve given. Please be sure to check out my Sessionize profile as well.
Backup Basics with PowerShell and dbatools Abstract As...

SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services: The Basics Part 5

We’re now on Part 5 of our SQL Server Reporting Services Basics Series. In this installment, we’ll learn how to...

Favorite community scripts and their parameters

Here’s some of my favorite community scripts and how I like to run them. If you haven’t tried the optional...

VMware vExpert for 2019

I’m honored and humbled to be awarded the VMware vExpert award for the seventh year in a row! Thank you...

Secure Travel

Traveling in today’s age of technology is a lot easier than in the past.   You can start your journey in...

Pausing the Learning for March

In my last update, I was disappointed with my February progress. Busy with life and work, I didn’t do much...

Writing my presentation 2: Designing the presentation

This series is about my process for writing my upcoming presentation at SQL Saturday Chicago #825.

Today’s goals
Today I’m going to...

There is Now A Delete Activity in Data Factory V2!

Data Factory can be a great tool for cloud and hybrid data integration. But since its inception, it was less...

Writing my presentation part 1: The brainstorm/dump

For this session, I’m relying on a mixture of previous blog posts and new material/demos that I’ll have to write....

Can you speak at my User Group or Conference? No? Sweet As – can you help people register please?

This blog post is not going to be a technical one…. but it’s about technology – well more accurately about bringing...