SQL

MCT Summit – Day Two

It is Day Two of the MCT Summit and I will be presenting two sessions today. The first will be at 10:45am in the Diplomat…


MCSA: BI Reporting

Finally! You can see by the dates below, I took these two beta exams last fall. Well, today they were finally graded. I took both…


SQL Saturday Nashville 2018

I am very excited to be presenting a half day pre-conference session for SQL Saturday – Nashville. It will be a three hour course on…


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…


Free SQL Performance Scripts

This is why I love Twitter to keep up with the #SQLFamily. A question was asked by Chrissy LeMaire about scripts that Microsoft PFEs use…


SQL Bits Videos

The 2017 SQLBits videos are now out and you can find them here. What is SQLBits? That is a good question… and you can find…


SQL, SSIS, BIML Data Types

Truly inspired and impressed by the work that Cathrine Wilhelmsen put into this blog post on the data types for not only SQL, but for…


SQL Server Certifications 2017

I will be in Atlanta this weekend to talk about SQL Server certifications. However, I know many of you will not be able to attend….


Yooper PASS Session

Tonight, I will be speaking remotely for the Yooper SQL Server User Group. I am assuming that Yooper refers to Upper Michigan. You can watch…