I’m doing another precon at SQL Saturday Chicago on March 20th, 2020. The event is at Benedictine University in Lisle, IL. This time we’re going to dive a little bit deeper into Azure. While last years precon focused on basic infrastructure skills in Azure, this time we’re going to focus a little deeper into the […]
Category: SQL DW
How the Cloud Democratizes Solutions
The grey hairs I see every now and again remind me of how long I’ve been working in IT. I’m now in my 22nd year of having a job (2 years as an intern, but I did have the ‘sys’ password), and I’ve seen a lot of things come and go. When I started working […]
Ignite—Important Data Announcements You Probably Missed
So, if you have been living under a rock for the last year (and yes, he really is president), you may not have heard that SQL Server 2017 launched yesterday, and it runs on Linux!!! If you want to know more about that you can read my article over at Redmond mag. SQL Server 2017 […]
SQL Data Warehouse—Size Limits? (No, Not Really)
One of the promises of Azure SQL Data Warehouse is the ability to have petabyte scale. The ability to quickly scale data, and have that data scale independently of compute resources. So when one I my clients emailed me yesterday with this screenshot, needless to say I was concerned. As you can see, when the […]