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SQL Skills Blackbelt on SQL Server

Extremely rewarding to be only the 46th person to earn this demanding badge from SQL Skills. It is only achieved after attending SEVEN deeply technical courses focused on Microsoft SQL Server. In total, these courses provide over 155 hours of content and demonstrations.


Azure Data Engineer

John Deardurff passed the DP-200 and DP-201 exam for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer certification.


Certification Summer 2020

During the summer of 2020, I earned four new Microsoft certifications. This brings me to over sixty in total with 86 Microsoft exams passed.


Azure in a Month of Lunches

More than 100 Azure services offer everything you need to build and run your applications with all the performance, redundancy, security, and scale that the…


New Microsoft Certifications Announced

Today at Ignite, Microsoft announced six new job role–based certifications with associated training to verify the skills of the next wave of digital leaders. Microsoft Certified: Azure…


New Azure Role-Based Exams

As of September 24th, 2018, there are two Associate level certifications and one Expert level certification available. Each of these certifications will require two exams…


Three New Azure Certifications

Three new Azure Certifications were announced this week, the first of which is available now. A key thing to note is this is the first…


Azure Cosmos DB query cheat sheets

The Azure Cosmos DB query cheat sheets help you quickly write queries for your data by displaying common database queries, operations, functions, and operators in easy-to-print PDF…


Cloudy with a Chance of Data

Going back to SQL Saturday Nashville for my fourth straight year. But, hot of the presses, I’m bringing a brand new presentation. Well, at least…