Very honored to be a part of this incredible group of people. 45 of the 70 MCT Regional Leads from around the world attended the MCT Regional Lead Summit. Everything except this picture is under a Non-Disclosure Agreement. But, I can say I am looking forward to another exciting year…
So we have closed down the final day of the MCT Summit. This is always one of my favorite weeks of the year. Over the weekend, I was able to help Heather Severino and Michael Corkery lead the MCT Instructional Skills course as 12 people became MCTs. Monday, we had…
This Certification Exam Prep session is designed for people experienced with programming using Azure who are interested in taking the 70-533 (Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions) exam. Attendees of this session can expect to review the topics covered in this exam in a fast-paced format, as well as receive some…
Another course finished for my MBA. I would say this course took two months to get through as it was difficult to get focused over the holidays to spend much time on it. And honestly, I needed to take a small break from studying. But in reality, it was just…
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 of these without studying and just went in cold. So I am a little surpised that I passed both of them on the first try….
Time for another T-SQL Tuesday, which is the brainchild of Adam Machanic (b|t). T-SQL Tuesday is the recurring and revolving #SQLFamily blog party that has been going on since 2009. This month is being hosted by my good friend Malathi Mahadevan (b|t) with the topic, “Learning Goals for 2018”. Update…
Achievement Unlocked. Six courses down and four to go for the Big Data Microsoft Professional Program. https://academy.microsoft.com/en-us/tracks/big-data/ Updated: 12/25/2017 – Three more down over the Christmas weekend. So only the Capstone Project is left. I definitely need more practice creating Azure Data Factory Pipelines. But I feel very solid on all…
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 internals knowledge offered in this book will help you migrate existing tables or databases to Hekaton, and get faster performance from your SQL Server applications…
Classic Azure Portal Retired: Microsoft announced today that they will close the Azure classic portal on January 8, 2018. All functions will be available in the new portal.
Building the right infrastructure for an Enterprise BI and Reporting solution is not easy. It takes weeks or months to evaluate all that is available. Fortunately, Microsoft has introduced an Azure Technical Implementation Reference Guide to help you towards getting your Azure solution up and running.