Microsoft deliver on their promises, handsomely! At the SQL PASS Summit in October, James Phillips made a promise that everything … Continue reading “Microsoft deliver on their promises, handsomely!”

Since 2004, Netflix employees have taken as many vacation days as they’ve wanted. They have the freedom to decide when … Continue reading “Why Everyone Should Have Unlimited Vacation Days”

I did some SSIS development this week where we had to run a number of instances of a package in … Continue reading “Don’t trust row counts in BIDS during parallel execution”

When Jonathan Goldman arrived for work in June 2006 at LinkedIn, the business networking site, the place still felt like … Continue reading “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century”

Every good DBA should have a DBA database. A place to store information about all of their instances and databases. … Continue reading “Using Power Bi with my DBA Database”

I had the recent good fortune to undertake a speaking tour in which I talked to eight chapters of the … Continue reading “The Top 10 Mistakes Made by SQL Server DBAs”

Was Brains of the Thunderbirds a “data scientist” as well as a genius engineer? If not, which member of the … Continue reading “Data Scientists are GO”

Using SSDT to develop T-SQL code is really nice, although in my opinion it isn’t as nice as developing C# … Continue reading “SSDT & tSQLt – a serious double act!”

Demand for Computer Systems Analysts with big data expertise increased 89.9% in the last twelve months , and 85.40% for Computer … Continue reading “Where Big Data Jobs Will Be In 2015”