A short post this week. While I was helping some friends recently, we experienced a curious thing where as soon as an application was started… Read More »The denial-of-service attack is coming from inside the house
Last year I wrote a series of posts about accessibility as it relates to presentations, and one aspect which I didn’t cover is within the… Read More »Checking accessibility in your day-to-day work
On Wednesday February 23rd, 2022, the Calgary Data User Group will be hosting our first user group session of the year, featuring Warwick Rudd. The… Read More »Database Projects 101 in Azure Data Studio (Calgary Data User Group)
(This post was co-authored by Erik Darling.) The more things stay the same, the more they change… No, that’s not a mistake. In fact, it’s… Read More »Don’t optimize for ad hoc workloads as a best practice
I have been selected to speak at the DataGrillen conference later this year. I will be presenting my session How Does SQL Server Store That Data Type?,… Read More »Join me in Germany in June
In 2012 when I originally founded Born SQL, I never imagined I would find myself a five-time recipient of the Microsoft Data Platform MVP award,… Read More »A new chapter begins
Edited on 12 January 2023: You can run a SQL Server Docker container on Apple M1 and M2 Silicon Last month I wrote a blog post… Read More »SQL Server 2019 on Apple Silicon redux: it actually works
My good friend and talented singer Rob Volk reminded me recently that I had promised to write about my involvement with PASS at the end of… Read More »One year later: my look back on the PASS organization
It’s the final week of 2021, a year that was both twice as long and half the length of 2020. If you can, please make… Read More »And that’s a wrap
Recently my spouse and I travelled to South Africa (yes, I know there’s a pandemic on) to deal with a gloomy family matter that required… Read More »On the nature of constant change
Edited on 12 January 2023: You can run a SQL Server Docker container on Apple M1 and M2 Silicon Prior to 2017, the only way to… Read More »You can’t run SQL Server on Apple Silicon, and it sucks
Over the last nine months I’ve presented (virtually) eleven times on a variety of topics relating to SQL Server and the Microsoft Data Platform. Long-time… Read More »Your next step in the cloud
The dire warning in the subject line is not meant to scare you. Rather, it is advice that is going to be useful to those… Read More »Be careful with table updates
This is one of those shameless plugs I’m allowed to do from time to time to promote my user group here in Calgary. Tonight, starting… Read More »Calgary Data User Group: Big Data Clusters with Bob Pusateri
There’s a lot going on in the world today. It feels like there’s too much for us to think about. Speaking for myself, I’m worried… Read More »Days of future past