Blog Post: Jen’s Diary: Top 5 free online tools for organising yourself at...
As always, I don’t speak officially for PASS. This is a personal braindump. I’m presenting at PASS Summit and Live! 360 in Orlando , so self-organising is a hot topic for me! For diary purposes, I have...
View ArticleBlog Post: Improved #MinionBackup and #MinionReindex – new versions!
We released Minion Backup 1.1 and Minion Reindex 1.2 this week! We’ve got a some great new features, and a number of bug fixes. New features in brief: Minion Backup can now back up to NUL. Minion...
View ArticleBlog Post: Short Circuit Events
I introduced the importance about predicate order previously. I recommend either reading that article for the first time or reading it again if you have already read it. You can find that article –...
View ArticleBlog Post: Extended Events Intro
Extended Events is supposed to be taking over for most of Profiler and server-side tracing functionality, but there were people like me out there that took their time making the switch. For me the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Finding and keeping your #SQLPassion
I consider myself lucky. I fell into a job that I truly enjoy, something that I do for fun even when I don’t have to. A job, a technology and a community that I’m truly passionate about. Unfortunately...
View ArticleBlog Post: 7 Days of PASS – Day 1
Having decided to avoid missing yet another day of work, rather than travel on my more traditional Friday slot, instead I managed to catch the early morning Saturday flight to Seattle from London...
View ArticleBlog Post: Pass 2015 – First Impressions
It’s Pass 2015 this week and I’m attending (seriously I’m unbelievably chuffed)! As they’ll be a shedload of blogs about it this week I thought I’d shamelessly jump on the bandwagon. I flew out to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Exposure to Internals
For me, some of the most fun stuff with SQL Server is diving deep into the internals. Diving into the internals is not always an easy adventure. Sometimes, it requires a lot of trial and error...
View ArticleBlog Post: How to Stop an Azure Virtual Machine on a Schedule
As you've probably heard, Azure Virtual Machines can be stopped when not in use in order to save subscription costs. My personal Azure VMs are stopped more than they're started because they're my...
View ArticleBlog Post: Jen’s Diary: Why are PASS doing Business Analytics at all?
As always, I don’t speak for PASS. This is a braindump from the heart. I realise that we haven’t communicated about BA as much as some members might like. It’s a hard balance – I don’t want to spam...
View ArticleBlog Post: Azure SQL Database
So far I have strictly focused on Extended Events for SQL Server installations. This means I have been looking at Extended Events from the “physical” or on-premises perspective. Installing SQL Server...
View ArticleBlog Post: Live Blogging PASS Summit
This year I was fortunate enough to get the invite to join the live bloggers table for both keynotes going on. Looking forward to the opportunity and to what has to be said at each speaker. This...
View ArticleBlog Post: 7 Days of PASS – Day 2
It is Sunday 8 a.m. and I’ve managed to sleep well after yesterday’s exuberance. My body aches, but I’m soaking my bones in a nice hot bath and starting to feel ready for the day. As I glance outside I...
View ArticleBlog Post: Live Blog – Pass Summit Key Note – 1
PASS Summit Key note is off the ground and running….. President Thomas LaRock talks about the 16th annual meeting that is taking place and the #sqlfamily. This event is really like a family reunion...
View ArticleBlog Post: My Experience Moving WordPress From @GoDaddy to @Azure
Recently I got fed up with the lack of answers to my performance problems from GoDaddy with regard to the performance problems that had started randomly showing up that I decided to look into moving...
View ArticleBlog Post: Live Blog – Pass Summit Key Note – Day 1
Joseph Sirosh, Corporate VP of Data Group Microsoft talks about zigabytes….what!!!!!! Predominately in the cloud is where data will be moving; yes folks let’s get used to this now. Age of Hardware and...
View ArticleBlog Post: 7 Days of PASS – Day 4
Another day, another dawn, but somebody forgot to tell my body that what has gone has gone. I feel pretty bad from yesterday’s alcoholic Molotov concoctions and have been up since 2.30 a.m. unable to...
View ArticleComment on My Experience Moving WordPress From @GoDaddy to @Azure
I've never had these problems with GoDaddy. But if it ever happens thanks for the heads up. I'll know where to look for solutions.
View ArticleBlog Post: Default Sessions
So I have blasted through a lot of technical articles about Extended Events. There is a lot of groundwork that has been covered with layers of building blocks that have been stacked. Now it’s time to...
View ArticleBlog Post: PASS Summit Notes for my AzureML, R and Power BI Presentation
I’m going to have fun with my AzureML session today at PASS Summit! More will follow on this post later; I am racing off to the keynote so I don’t have long :) I heard some folks weren’t sure whether...
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