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…
I will be speaking tonight at 7pm EST for the Lincoln, Nebraska SQL User Group. Here is a link to my powerpoint presentaion. You can also watch my YouTube version of this presentation here.
Tomorrow night we have Peter Shore presenting an Introduction to Infrastructure for the DBA. It doesn’t matter if you are a Junior DBA, an accidental DBA or all the way up to a Senior DBA, the infrastructure your SQL Server environment runs on is important. Many among the DBA community came…
Are you a data scientist that is being asked to speak or is it just part of your work? Do you also use slides for your presentations? If so, join us in this webinar on November 15, 2016. You are about to learn the algorithm that you need to follow in…
Are you attending PASS Summit 2016—the world’s largest gathering of SQL Server and business intelligence (BI) professional? It is being held on October 25-28 in Seattle, Washington. If you’ll be there, from Wednesday to Friday look for the Microsoft Learning Lounge, which is on level 4 of the Washington State Convention…
Identifying and Fixing Parameter Sniffing (Tuesday October 18th, 2016 – 6:00 pm) Presenter: Brent Ozar from Brent Ozar Unlimited You swear nothing changed – but suddenly your SQL Server has ground to a halt. Queries are slow across the board. You restart the server, rebuild indexes, or update statistics, and…
One of the newest features that everyone is talking about with Azure SQL Database or SQL Server 2016 is the Query Store which provides a mechanism of capturing query performance over time and persisting it with the database. I’m still trying to figure it out myself, but a great place to start is from…
Session Recordings are now available from the 24 Hours of PASS. You can also check out all the speakers at the upcoming PASS Summit.
Don’t forget tonight at 11pm, Andy Yun will be presenting hour 16 of the 24 Hours of PASS .http://bit.ly/2boVHxb This session will be moderated by myself, but don’t miss out on the other 23 hours of this PASS Summit Preview.