Big Data Challenge
I completed the Know It, Prove It challenge and earned the Microsoft Virtual Academy Big Data badge. Whether you’re a Developer, Data Pro, or student, you…
SQL Server
Hekaton in SQL Server 2016 SP1
From the SQL Server Database Engine blog: With the release of SQL Server 2016 SP1, one of the outcomes is that In-Memory OLTP (aka Hekaton),…
SQL Service Pack released
Just six months after SQL Server 2016 was released on June 1, 2016, the product has received its very first Service Pack from Microsoft. This…
SQL Server on Linux
Today, Microsoft announced the public preview of the next release of SQL Server on Linux and Windows, which brings the power of SQL Server to Linux…
IndyPASS November
Tomorrow night we have Peter Shore presenting an Introduction to Infrastructure for the DBA. It doesn’t matter if you are a Junior DBA, an accidental DBA…
MVP Summit 2016
I am so thrilled to be attending my first MVP Summit. I would love to say more about it, but there are signs everywhere reminding…
Free Data Science eBook
R is one of the most popular, powerful data analytics languages and environments in use by data scientists. Actionable business data is often stored in…
October – IndyPass
Identifying and Fixing Parameter Sniffing (Tuesday October 18th, 2016 – 6:00 pm) Presenter: Brent Ozar from Brent Ozar Unlimited You swear nothing changed – but…
Get Started with Query Store
One of the newest features that everyone is talking about with Azure SQL Database or SQL Server 2016 is the Query Store which provides a mechanism of capturing…