SQLintersection Spring 2020 coming up fast!
As we head towards our SQLintersection Spring 2020 in April (our 15th show!), I’m excited to say that it’s once again our most diverse, complete, and
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As we head towards our SQLintersection Spring 2020 in April (our 15th show!), I’m excited to say that it’s once again our most diverse, complete, and
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By popular demand, we’ve added Tim’s reporting class to our Spring line-up in Chicago! [Edit 3/12/20: now in October 2020.] It’s a two-day class called IEReporting: Immersion
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The last post of the year! It’s been a really excellent year all round and time for my traditional post counting down some of the
Back in 2009 I started posting a summary at the end of the year of what I read during the year (see my posts from 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015,
We’re coming to SQLBits finally! Both Kimberly and I will be there for the first time in London in March/April – at long last the
By the end of December, we at SQLskills will have presented remotely (and a few in-person) to more than 100 user groups and PASS virtual chapters
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Jonathan’s latest Pluralsight course has been published: SQL Server: Using SentryOne Plan Explorer. It’s almost 3 hours long, and from the course description: Query plan analysis is both
I realized that I’d fixed an issue with my sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks script to correctly parse out the parallelism nodeId from the resource_description column (as newer versions include
Tim’s latest Pluralsight course has been published: SQL Server: Understanding Database Fundamentals (98-364). It’s just over 2 hours long, and from the course description: It is very common
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[Edit: 3/12/20 with updated class dates.] I’ve just released our Spring 2020 in-person classes in Chicago for registration! They will be at our main event hotel
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We have two live, online classes coming up in October and November that round out our training schedule for 2019. These class will be delivered live via
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As we head towards our SQLintersection Fall 2019 in November (our 14th show), I’m excited to say that it’s once again our most diverse, complete, and
So far this year, we at SQLskills have presented remotely (and a few in-person) to 42 user groups and PASS virtual chapters around the world, and
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This morning I had the great honor to be presented with a Patriot Award for supporting the U.S. Army Reserve activities of Sergeant First Class
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We thought we were only going to present in-person classes in Spring this year, but as IEPTO1 and IEAzure both sold out and had long
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As we head towards our SQLintersection Spring 2019 in June (our 13th show), I’m excited to say that it’s once again our most diverse, complete,
(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more
(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more
Last week I blogged about Using the Wait Statistics Report in Azure Data Studio, using a Linux VM in Azure as an example host. As
(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes
Azure Data Studio, which used to be called SQL Operations Studio, has a bunch of extensions available, including one called Server Reports from Microsoft. Last
I’m working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) VMs on Azure and one of the best practices that Microsoft recommends is to change the default
… I emigrated to the United States. I boarded a plane in Glasgow with my (then) wife Sylvia, bounced in Amsterdam and then landed in
The last post of the year! It’s been a really excellent year all round and time for my traditional post counting down some of the
Back in 2009 I started posting a summary at the end of the year of what I read during the year (see my posts from 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015,
No only has Tim been working heavily with Azure in 2018, he’s also been diving into the various reporting solutions that SQL Server has, and
It’s Cyber Monday today, and now that you’ve finished picking up great deals for your personal life, how about a great deal for your professional
Due to the popularity of our live, online classes this year, we’re presenting six more in the first three months of 2019! Each class will be
Continuing our series of live, online classes, Jonathan will be delivering his new IECS: Immersion Event on Columnstore Indexes in March! The class will be delivered live via WebEx
Tim’s been working closely with the development team on Azure Managed Instance, presented with them at Ignite recently, and has been presenting internally at Microsoft
By the end of December, we at SQLskills will have presented remotely (and a few in-person) to more than 100 user groups and PASS virtual chapters
Earlier this year I was sent an interesting question about why the person was seeing lots of VLFs in the log with status = 2
I’ve just released our first set of 2019 classes for registration! We’ll be adding new classes in Chicago over the coming weeks, including a new class on
I’m seeing reports from a few people of DBCC CHECKDB reporting PFS corruption after an upgrade from SQL Server 2014 to SQL Server 2016 or
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