Will Hosted Services Take Your Job?

This week I was honored to be able to attend, and present a session at, SQLDay in Wroclaw Poland. I fell in love with Poland the very first time I attended this event, so I look forward to any time I can go again. This year, Pavel Potasinski presented the keynote: The Evolution of the […]

Standards Matter

A short story about why standards matter and where they can help you with limiting the off hour calls from others in your organization.

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Moving Away From MySQL

A developer has some harsh things to see as he leaves the MySQL team. Is he right?

Virtual Events Are Here To Stay

This week was the MVP Summit. As was the case for the last couple of years, the event was entirely virtual. We were shown a bunch of new and interesting things by Microsoft. We were able to talk to each other and to the engineers at Microsoft. I'm honored that I've been an MVP and […]

Cloud Computing Basics - Achieving High Availability

Learn about high availability in the cloud at a conceptual level.

Create a Free Azure Account

Learn how to get started in Azure with a free account.

Data and database management in everchanging technology landscape

This article discusses how the cloud and other technologies help companies to manage their data appropriately in the modern world.

Another look at table variables

Becoming overly enthusiastic about a new SQL Server feature can backfire if you don’t do some testing. One example is the table variable introduced with SQL Server 2000. At the time, there was a myth that table variables would always perform better than temp tables with the reasoning that, by definition, variables are stored in […]

Using Azure File and Blob Storage with Azure VMs – Step by Step

Learn how to use Azure File and Blob storage with your applications.