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
A customer I’ve been working with for a while now has a monolithic ASP.NET MVC web application which we are porting to .NET Core 3.1… Read More »Table Valued Parameters and Dapper in .NET Core
SQL Server 2022 was announced yesterday at Microsoft Ignite, and it’s going to be a big one. Building on a lot of work in the… Read More »SQL Server 2022 announced
After writing several posts about a neat feature in Azure SQL called system-versioned ledger tables, it reminded me about something I’ve wanted to say for… Read More »You don’t need a blockchain
2021 has been the year people want to learn about Temporal Tables, it seems. Not only am I speaking at the SQL Trail conference next… Read More »Join me next week at my first GroupBy session
This is the third post in the series about system-versioned ledger tables, a new feature introduced in Azure SQL Database. You can read Part 1… Read More »System-versioned ledger tables: things you can’t do
I’ve had the privilege of presenting all over the world about temporal tables in SQL Server including the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.… Read More »Join me at SQL Trail 2021 to hear the next thing about Temporal Tables
In the first post of this series, we learned about a new type of system-versioned table that also works at the database level and introduces… Read More »System-versioned ledger tables: the next step