Training To-Do List for New DBA

Are you an entry-level DBA, or looking to make the career switch? Feel like you are looking up from the...

SQL Server Admin Best Practices with DMV's at SQLSaturday Pensacola 2016

Great attendance and awesome questions from my 1130AM session on "SQL Server Admin Best Practices with DMV's". As promised, all...

SQLSaturday Pensacola Up Next For Me, Baton Rouge on the Horizon

Looking forward to the triumphant return of SQLSaturday Pensacola on June 4, thrilled that this start-of-summer tradition is back! This has been...

Hello SQLSaturday Houston!

I've been looking forward to speaking at SQLSaturday Houston again all year!

Big thanks to the organizing crew behind this great...

SQL Server 2016 at the BRSSUG Meeting on May 11

Looking forward to the BRSSUG/BRPBIUG meeting this Wednesday night May 11, I'll be giving a presentation all about SQL 2016!

This...

Columnstore Indexes: Finally Awesome in SQL 2016

Columnstore indexes are amazing for optimizing the performance of large rowcount queries that would otherwise look like a SCAN operation in...

SSRS 2016 then SQL Jeopardy! tonight at BRSSUG!

See you tonight for our special SQL Jeopardy! competition where I will be your Trebek and three lucky user group...

SQL Server PerfMon Counters Not Listed in dm_os_performance_counters

Had an issue with a new Azure VM install of SQL Server, but have had this issue in other, older...

Azure ML and R at This Week's BRSSUG/BRPBIUG

This Wednesday night, not only are we going to be showcasing the technology of the internet with an online presenter...

SQL Server Security Principals Lightning Round Presentation

Thanks for attending tonight's joint meeting of the Baton Rouge .NET/SQL/PowerBI User Groups, which was sponsored by Idera!

I presented a...