T-SQL Tuesday #89 – The times they are a-changing Thank you to Koen Verbeeck for hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. The topic for this month is the role of the DBA in a cloud based world. Will there be less jobs in the future for the traditional DBA? As with…
So Kendra Little is starting a SQL Workbooks website where she will be helping people learn SQL Server by solving problems. I have always enjoyed her presentations and hope she is very successful in this new adventure.Visit her website and check out the courses.
Well, that was not as difficult as I thought it would be. I was able to pass the 70-473 exam for the Cloud Data Platform Specialist certification. The first place to start if you are interested in passing this exam is Microsoft Virtual Academy. It has a great overview of the exam topics…
I was doing some research on Security and SQL Azure Databases and found this great article form Joseph D’Antoni (Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting) and Stacia Varga (Data Inspirations) that I highly recommend. The summary states, “This paper details the security and data management features found in Microsoft Azure SQL Database….
I completed the Know It, Prove It challenge and earned the Microsoft Virtual Academy Big Data badge. Whether you’re a Developer, Data Pro, or student, you can learn valuable skills quickly and correctly through video tutorials, assessments, and more. From now until December 14th you too can choose from one of…
From the SQL Server Database Engine blog: With the release of SQL Server 2016 SP1, one of the outcomes is that In-Memory OLTP (aka Hekaton), is now available in SQL Server Standard Edition and Express Edition. Get a recap of the technology and some of the resource/memory limitations in these…
Just six months after SQL Server 2016 was released on June 1, 2016, the product has received its very first Service Pack from Microsoft. This Service Pack also contains fixes released in the first three Cumulative Updates. Click here to find a list of all the new features and capabilities….
Today, Microsoft announced the public preview of the next release of SQL Server on Linux and Windows, which brings the power of SQL Server to Linux for the first time ever. But the love fest doesn’t stop there. The Linux Foundation announced today that Microsoft has joined the organization as a Platinum member…
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…
I am so thrilled to be attending my first MVP Summit. I would love to say more about it, but there are signs everywhere reminding everyone about violating their Non-Disclosure Agreement. I think it is alright to mention that since I am a Data Platform MVP, I may have learned some…