Installing minikube on CentOS

In this blog post, I’ll show you how to install Minikube on CentOS. Minikube is a platform you can use...

Connecting to SQL Server 2017 using Visual Studio 2017 and getting “An incompatible SQL Server version detected”

This blog post details the error you may get when using Visual Studio 2017 and you get errors that you...

It’s a wrap – SQL Saturday Denver #774

SQL Saturday Denver #774 has come and gone. It’s hard to believe how quick things went – well there were a...

I’m Speaking – Denver Dev Day Fall 2018

Denver Dev Day Fall 2018 is a free event organized by volunteers and hosted at the Microsoft campus in the DTC. It’s a full day to learn from industry...

The Security Weak Link

I saw this cartoon, which I think is great: Data Security. It’s from John Klossner, and it perfectly shows that...

Which is faster? IN (list) or IN (SELECT FROM Temp)

If you’ve done much with IN (list) then you’ve realized that it basically translates out to
col=val1 OR col=val2 OR...

Auto-Scaling Azure SQL DB

When I was presenting my Azure SQL Database session at DataRelay (used to be SQLRelay) I was asked (over coffee)...

Inspector V1.2 now available

It has been long overdue but finally V1.2 is now available on GitHub.
V1.2 brings a lot of changes, We put...

Inspector V1.2 revised installation guide

Pre-requisites:
SQL 2012 or higher

SQL Server Agent

A database to store the the data collected by the agent jobs (this can be...

Veterans At PASS Summit ’18

Hello all!
This year at PASS Summit, I will be distributing the below ribbons once again to ANY and ALL Service...