SQL Server

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.


SQL Server Technical Reviewer

After several attempts, I finally got to see my name in an actual published book. Not as an author but a technical reviewer of the…


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.


70-765 SQL Admin Exam

I finally passed the 70-765 exam. This finished up the MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Administration certification and also re-earned the MCSE: Data Management and Analytics…


SQL Saturday Indy Pre-Cons

The schedule is up for SQL Saturday Indianapolis coming up on August 11th. But don’t forget, we also have THREE AWESOME full day Pre-Conference events on Friday,…


SQL Saturday Indianapolis Schedule

The schedule for SQL Saturday Indianapolis has now gone live. Thank you to all our awesome speakers for volunteering their time to make this free…


SQL Saturday Atlanta 2018

Wow! Over 900 people are registered for the Atlanta SQL Saturday this weekend. Remember there are 10 tracks and over 70 sessions. But if you…


In-Memory OLTP

Free ebook: SQL Server Internals – In-Memory OLTP. In this book Kalen Delaney introduces and explains how the 2016 In-Memory OLTP engine works. The Hekaton…