Speaking at SQL Saturday Oregon

I am so excited and honored that I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Oregon on November 3,...

ASF 015 video invitation

“This was in Dallas, we had our MVP Summit in Dallas and there were only maybe like less than 10...

How much affects encryption to your database performance?

Transparent data encryption (TDE) helps you to secure your data at rest, this means the data files and related backups are encrypted, securing your data in case your media...

Power BI Monthly Digest – October 2018

In this month’s Power BI Digest with my friend Manuel Quintana [Blog | Twitter] and I will again guide you through...

Regular Expressions: tagging expressions

I re-discovered something very cool while using RegEx in SSMS today: tagging expressions and referencing them in the same line! I’ll take...

Generic Modifier In & Out C#

In [Contravariant]The image is self-explanatory.

Out [Covarient]The image is self-explanatory.

SQL Pivot and Unpivot relational operatots

In this article, we’ll walk-through the SQL Pivot and SQL Unpivot operators and how they can be useful to transpose...

Using Extended Events to Capture Implicit Conversions

Using the appropriate data type to avoid conversions or implicit conversions is a fundamental approach to good T-SQL coding practices....

Presenting at the SQL Server PASS Detroit User Group in November

In or around Detroit?  Come see my Getting Started with Machine Learning session at the Detroit PASS User Group, Thursday, November 8th at 6 PM. Power Point [8MB] Demo...

Highlighting sp_spaceused

I’ve been using sp_spaceused a lot recently so I thought I would bring it up again. Basically it’s a quick...