December 20, 2022
View Event: SQL Assessment – Microsoft’s Best Practices Checker Do you want to get the current 244 suggested best practices from the SQL Server Team and evaluate your environments? These best practices are available for all instances, from your Data Center to the cloud. In this demo session (Yes, no slides), I will show you […]
December 13, 2022
I thank Garry Bargsley (Blog|Twitter) for hosting T-SQL Tuesday #157. The topic for this month is End of Year Activity. I also want to acknowledge Adam Machanic’s vision behind this project. I learned a lot from some T-SQL Tuesdays and participated in a few. Thank you, Steve Jones (Blog|Twitter), for coordinating this program. If you are interested […]
December 13, 2022
View Event: Analyzing Azure Monitor Log Data for Azure Resources Kusto is a service for storing and running interactive analytics over Big Data. Kusto was designed from scratch to be a “big data” repository for Azure and easy to query using Kusto Query Language (KQL). We learn new ways to monitor and alert resources and […]
November 17, 2022
Pass Data Community Summit 2022 day two keynote titled “Doing More with Less: The Challenges Ahead for Every Data Professional” will be delivered by Redgate. There are three names (Jakub Lamik, Steve Jones, and Kathi Kellenberger) but five pictures. I am unsure if David Bick and Arne Eskandari will be on the stage. I am […]
November 3, 2022
New Starts of Data organizers asked us to tell our story about how we started. I want to thank William Durkin (T) and Ben Weissman (B|T) for this great initiative that has produced over 100 new speakers. Wednesday, October 14, 2015, I did my first lightning talk, ‘Manging SQL Agent Job History,’ at New England […]