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Hello, World!
Greetings, & welcome to my blog. This is my first blog post. Ever. What an auspicious moment. I’m blogging because my boss, my boss’s boss, & his boss all suggested I do so. I can take a...
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Is Twitter the YouTube of 2008?
Always in pursuit of the elusive creature known as Work/Life Balance, I discard activities which monopolize my scarce bandwidth. I even struggled with tagging this post under "Productivity". Yet it...
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Disk Partition Alignment (Sector Alignment) for SQL Server: Part 3: PASS 2008
I've spoken publicly several times this year to crowds large-&-small:TechReady 6 (an internal Microsoft conference)Indy Tech FestITT CommencementLast week was my first external international...
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Celebrating Life: The Princess Pumpkin Puss, A Pain In My Neck, Randy Pausch,...
This is nominally a personal productivity as well as a SQL Server performance blog, but I seldom indulge that facet—too busy being productive, don't you know? Ward Pond's annual amalgam (May Glad...
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DST: It's About Time!
Daylight Saving Time, DST, has finally returned. We sprung forward yesterday. I love DST! For years here in Indiana I had no reason to celebrate. That changed recently.I was a proud member of the...
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A Rendezvous With Destiny: PASS 2009 (#sqlpass)
Rendezvous With DestinyForty-five years ago, Ronald Reagan aka Ronaldus Magnus spoke to Americans of our rendezvous with destiny.In a few short days the SQL Community will rendezvous in Seattle for the...
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Hello, World! Encore Edition aka Good-bye, Microsoft
Moving OnAfter nearly nine years at Microsoft, I’ve chosen to move on.I’ve accepted a position at Fusion-io—now a SanDisk company—as Worldwide SQL Server Solutions Architect where I’ll be evangelizing,...
View ArticleMSDN Whitepaper: More Cowbell—Optimizing Your Query Plans with the SQL Server...
Hot off the presses is this new MSDN white paper: Optimizing Your Query Plans with the SQL Server 2014 Cardinality Estimator One of the gems introduced in SQL Server 2014 is the Cardinality Estimator...
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Why Certification Still Matters: The Why, The Journey, and Certification-fu à...
MSIT People Aspirations Last year MSIT’s People Aspirations team asked me to share my Microsoft certification experiences. The team adopted a Bruce Lee meme which I weaved into my deck. This week the...
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Columnstore Case Study #1: MSIT SONAR Aggregations
Preamble This is the first in a series of posts documenting big wins encountered using columnstore indexes in SQL Server 2012 & 2014. Many of these can be found in this deck along with details...
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Columnstore Case Study #2: Columnstore faster than SSAS Cube at DevCon Security
Preamble This is the second in a series of posts documenting big wins encountered using columnstore indexes in SQL Server 2012 & 2014. Many of these can be found in my big deck along with details...
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AdventureWorks 2014 Sample Databases Are Now Available
Where in the World is AdventureWorks? Recently, SQL Community feedback from twitter prompted me to look in vain for SQL Server 2014 versions of the AdventureWorks sample databases we’ve all grown to...
View ArticleTwo Presentations This Weekend at #SQLSaturday349 in Salt Lake City
I have the privilege of being selected to fill two slots this weekend at #SQLSaturday349 in Salt Lake City. The venue is simultaneously hosting the Big Mountain Data event. My talks are: To the Cloud,...
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Spooked by Columnstore? See My Halloween Weekend Preso at #SQLSatOregon
This Halloween weekend I continue my efforts to make the world of SQL DWs a better place—one table at a time—via evangelizing Columnstore at #SQLSaturday337 in Portlandia. Columnstore Indexes in SQL...
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#SQLPASS: To The Cloud, Infinity, & Beyond: Top 10 Lessons Learned at MSIT
Capping off a fantastic third week of presentations (see #SQLSatSLC & #SQLSatOregon), I’m speaking Thursday 11/6/2014 at 1:30p at the Professional Association for SQL Server International Summit....
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Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2014: Flipping the DW /faster Bit at...
This weekend on December 6, 2014 I continue my evangelization of Columnstore—possibly the most exciting unheralded feature in SQL Server 2014—at SQL Saturday 347 at an auspicious venue: the Microsoft...
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Hello, World! Encore Edition aka Good-bye, Microsoft
Moving On After nearly nine years at Microsoft, I’ve chosen to move on. I’ve accepted a position at Fusion-io—now a SanDisk company—as Worldwide SQL Server Solutions Architect where I’ll be...
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