Setting mentoring ground rules
One of the things I always recommend in the first newsletter of each year is to try to get a mentor. On the flip side
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One of the things I always recommend in the first newsletter of each year is to try to get a mentor. On the flip side
Due to the popularity of Kimberly’s delivery of her new IEVLT: Immersion Event on Very Large Tables: Optimizing Performance and Availability through Partitioning in January, and the fact
SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often see done incorrectly, technologies used the wrong
By the end of December, we at SQLskills had presented remotely (and a few in-person) to more than 100 user groups and PASS virtual chapters around the
As we head towards our 11th SQLintersection in March, I’m excited to say that it’s once again our most diverse, complete, and information-packed show yet!
Erin’s latest Pluralsight course has been published – SQL Server: Automatic Tuning in SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database. It’s 90 minutes long, and from the course
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’ve been considering doing some live, online training classes for a while now, and with the demand for Kimberly to teach an Immersion Event on
We’ve added a third brand-new class to our Spring line-up in Chicago: Immersion Event on Practical Machine Learning. It’s a combination 2-day class plus 3-day class, taught by industry
Tim’s latest Pluralsight course has been published – SQL Server: Implementing a Hybrid Cloud Solution in Azure. It’s 2.5 hours long, and from the course description: Have you
[Edit 3/12/2019: it looks like this bug, or a similar one, is also in SQL Server 2016. I’ll post an update once I have it.]
Quite often I see questions about DBCC CHECKDB error messages along the lines of: Specifically, the part that confuses people is “Object ID 0, index ID
This post is about a disaster-recovery scenario I described in our bi-weekly newsletter a couple of weeks ago, and wanted to make sure it’s out on the web too
Due to popular demand, we’re coming back to London in 2018 and I’ve just released our classes for registration! All classes have discounts for registering
It’s been almost three years since I wrote a T-SQL Tuesday post (shame on me!), but this is one I definitely want to contribute to.
My latest Pluralsight course has been published – SQL Server: Understanding and Performing Backups. It’s 2.5 hours long, and from the course description: It’s really impossible to escape
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
We’ve added a second brand-new class to our Spring line-up in Chicago: Immersion Event on Securing Your BI Platform. It’s a 2-day class, taught by MVP and industry
We’ve added a brand-new class to our Spring line-up in Chicago: Immersion Event on Developing a BI and Analytics Strategy. It’s a 3-day class, taught by MVP and industry
As Kimberly blogged about earlier this year, SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often see
As Kimberly blogged about earlier this year, SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often see
I’ve just released our first set of 2018 classes for registration! We’ll be adding new classes in Chicago over the coming weeks, including classes on data
Erin’s latest Pluralsight course has been published – SQL Server: Analyzing Query Performance for Developers. It’s four hours long, and from the course description: Developers are sometimes charged
As Kimberly blogged about earlier this year, SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often see
As we head towards our 10th SQLintersection in October, I’m excited to say that it’s once again our most diverse, complete, and information-packed show yet!
It’s been a while coming but it’s worth the wait! Kimberly’s latest Pluralsight course has been published – SQL Server: Indexing for Performance – and it’s a
…the second stage of my life ended, when I left Microsoft on August 31st, 2007. The first stage of my life was education, ending in
As Kimberly blogged about earlier this year, SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often see
As Kimberly blogged about earlier this year, SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often see
Wow! We had 22 entries for our competition (writing a post is a high bar so I was expecting 20-30) to win a free seat in
We’re really excited about the classes we’ve got coming up in Chicago and to say ‘thank you’ to the SQL community for all your support
As Kimberly blogged about earlier this year, SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often see
As Kimberly blogged about earlier this year, SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often see
As we head towards our 10th SQLintersection in October, I’m excited to say that it’s once again our most diverse, complete, and information-packed show yet!
So far this year, we at SQLskills have presented remotely (and a few in-person) to 61 user groups and PASS virtual chapters around the world, and
Due to popular demand, we’ve added another class this October (9th-11th) in Chicago: Immersion Event on PowerShell for SQL Server DBAs. We debuted this class in May
As Kimberly blogged about earlier this year, SQLskills has an ongoing initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’re all blogging about things that we often
A few months ago while I was teaching wait statistics, I was asked whether there’s any expected differences with waits stats when SQL Server is
As Kimberly blogged about recently, SQLskills is embarking on a new initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’ll all be blogging about things that
We have a third exciting new class debuting this October in Chicago: Immersion Event on Clustering and Availability Groups. It’s a 2-day class, taught by
As Kimberly blogged about recently, SQLskills is embarking on a new initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’ll all be blogging about things that
A few years ago I realized that there was a huge gap in knowledge in the SQL Server community – what do all the various
As Kimberly blogged about recently, SQLskills is embarking on a new initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’ll all be blogging about things that
An interesting question came up in class yesterday: how is a default column value stored, and what if some rows exist when a column is added and then
I’ve just released our final set of 2017 classes for registration, including the new two-day class on Azure, the new three-day class on upgrading and
As Kimberly blogged about recently, SQLskills is embarking on a new initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’ll all be blogging about things that
And to coincide with our new training class on Azure, we’ve just published a new Pluralsight course on Azure too! Tim’s latest Pluralsight course – SQL Server: Understanding
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