Spent the weekend and today working on three of four papers needed for my IT Strategic Solutions class. The last one is definitely going to take a day or two by itself. Get that done and I’ll only have the Capstone project left. Update: I actually finished all four papers…
I have been procrastinating over the last month to get started on my Data-Driven Decision-Making course. My student mentor was starting to stress a little as I was getting behind on the official timetable for this term. But I knew I could knock out this task on a weekend once…
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…