I am very honored to once again be selected to serve the MCT Community as an MCT Regional Lead for 2018 – 2019. The MCT Regional Leads play a key part in helping Microsoft serve the global MCT Community through community leadership, mentoring support, and engagement with Microsoft. Additionally, the…
During the keynote at this weeks Connect() developer conference, Microsoft unveiled a new service that integrates the Azure platform with a globally distributed streaming analytics solution. Now available in preview, Azure Databricks is designed to help app users and developers take advantage of machine learning, graph processing and AI-based applications.
Introducing Microsoft SQL Operations Studio, which is a free, light-weight tool for modern database development and operations for SQL Server on Windows, Linux and Docker, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse on Windows, Mac or Linux machines. To find out more click here or to download it click here.
I started working on the Big Data professional program a few months ago, but became a little busy traveling, speaking, and working. But since my schedule is slowing down for the rest of the year, I decdied to refocus on completing the track. I’m also looking at the DevOps program…
Finally finished the third and final paper for my Ethical Leadership course. Which means I can get a head start on my final term, followed of course by the Capstone project. I’m going to start with Financial Management since it is the last course outside of my comfort zone. The IT…
Volunteering again today for most of the morning. I could not keep up with most of the today’s keynote as I was running around trying to answer questions. But, here is a link to Erin Stellato’s blog where she kept a running commetary. I will definitely be going back an…
Starting off the first day of the PASS Summit and the Keynote was focused on SQL Server 2017 and Azure Data Services. This looked familiar to me as I witnessed the same thing at Ignite about a month ago and you can see that video here. One cool announcement was…
While I was at Microsoft Ignite earlier this month, I had the chance to test drive the Azure Essentials learning platfrom from Microsoft. And now you can sign up and learn more about the essentials of Azure as well. Find out more here.
This video is from Microsoft Ignite where Bob Ward demonstrated The Fast and Furious of SQL Server 2017. Also, check out this interview of Bob from our friend Cathrine Wilhelmsen.
Did you know there are now FIVE Microsoft Professional Programs? Which one is right for you? Find out more here.