On Saturday 9 April 2016, four days from today, I will be speaking at the first ever SQLSaturday in the province of Alberta. Edmonton is… Read More »Speaking at SQLSaturday 507 this weekend in Edmonton
Working from home, consulting with companies all over the world, has changed how I interact with customers. The last time I was physically on site… Read More »Professionalism doesn’t mean a collared shirt and tie
Instead of a survey or a technical post, I will take this opportunity to wish everyone a happy new year. 2015 was a good year for… Read More »Happy New Year
(This is a non-technical post, and is part of the #SQLNewBlogger Challenge.) This year was my second PASS Summit, and my favourite one so far.… Read More »The SQL Server Family
I received some good feedback on my talk this Wednesday for the Calgary PASS Chapter. This has led me to consider transposing the content from… Read More »The SQL Server Performance Starter Kit
The local SQL PASS chapter in Calgary is hosting yours truly as the speaker for this month. I only have an hour, which I will… Read More »I’m speaking tomorrow
As the title says, I’ll be speaking at the Calgary SQL PASS User Group on 19 August 2015. My topic is SQL Server Performance Tuning… Read More »Speaking at Calgary SQL PASS User Group on 19 August 2015
I presented for fifty minutes on 27 June 2015, for my first ever SQLSaturday talk. The amount of time I put into that presentation is… Read More »How I prepared for my first ever SQLSaturday session
I have been selected to speak at SQLSaturday #407 in Vancouver, on 27 June 2015. My topic is about restoring SQL Server backups from Azure… Read More »SQLSaturday #407 in Vancouver
This is the final entry in my #SQLNewBlogger challenge. You can read the previous entries here: Part 1: The Intersection of Art and Science Part… Read More »Total Recall
In this, the third part of my series on the intersection of art and science, I hit that crossroad. I can cross over into the… Read More »What motivates you?
This is the second post in my four part series for the #SQLNewBlogger Challenge. You can read the first part here. On Saturday, 28 March… Read More »The Art of Improvisation
This is the first post in a series of four, where Ed Leighton-Dick, via Brent Ozar, is proposing that we SQL Server folks participate in… Read More »The Intersection of Art and Science
This blog has been neglected for the past year. Ironically, I’ve been developing a fairly complex SQL Server database for a new company, which is… Read More »Too quiet
I’ve been privileged to attend the 2014 Summit in Seattle this year, which has been a great experience thus far. More importantly, I’ve been speaking… Read More »SQL PASS Summit 2014