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 suggesting that it was not possible to get SQL Server… 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 its life, and I remember saying out of respect that… 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 sure you are vaccinated and boosted. It doesn’t prevent infection,… 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 in-person interaction. Being an adult means dealing with things that… 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 get SQL Server running on a Mac was through a… 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 readers will know I have some experience as a high… 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 of us who need to audit changes to a database.… 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 5pm Mountain time, Bob Pusateri (blog | Twitter) will be… 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 about the environment first and foremost, followed closely by folks… 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 (and then almost immediately to .NET 6). One of our… 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 Azure SQL space, SQL Server 2022 looks to include some… 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 a number of years now, outside of snarky tweets. Here… 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 week, but I was also selected to speak at the… 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 and Part 2 if you haven’t already. Every choice we… 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. The theme of the session has always been Back to… Join me at SQL Trail 2021 to hear the next thing about Temporal Tables