I am honored and humbled to be awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for the Data Platform category. This is my 6th award, and I am just as amazed and excited as I was for the first award. Thank you to the SQL Server community for giving me the opportunity to speak at your […]
SQL Saturday Louisville
Are you coming to town for SQL Saturday 883 in Louisville KY, if you are going to be around the area on August 2nd, I’ll be presenting an all day session on Common SQL Server Mistakes and How to Correct Them. This session is gear for the junior to mid-level DBA that is responsible for […]
SQL Saturday Baton Rouge
Hello Baton Rouge! David Pless and I will be teaching an all day workshop on Performance Tuning and Optimization for Modern Workloads (SQL Server 2017, Azure SQL Database, and Managed Instance) on Friday August 16th. This is a fun and interactive day of learning about how to improve overall SQL performance in Azure and on-premises. […]
Query Store for Azure PostgreSQL
Query Store is not just for Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database anymore. Microsoft announced back in Oct 2018 that Query Store was available in Public Preview for PostgreSQL. How cool is that! As Microsoft continues to expand the Azure Data Platform with including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and others, features that we know and love […]
I’m a Friend of Redgate for Another Year!
I am very proud and happy to be a Friend of Redgate for a ninth year! I had to ask Redgate when my first year of acceptance into the program was and they confirmed it was 2011. WOW, what an honor to be part of this program for so many years. If you’re not familiar with the […]
New vCore Compute Levels for Azure SQL Database and Elastic Pools
Additional vCore-based elastic pools and single databases have been expanded for the general purpose, business critical, and hyperscale service tiers. This provides customers with more flexibility and options when migrating DTU-based deployments and right-sizing workloads for the cloud. Azure SQL Database, Elastic Pools, and Hyperscale have two processor types to select from. Gen 4 offers […]
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance Business Critical Tier Now Available
The business critical tier for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is now available. Customers needing a higher level of high availability and disk performance now have the supported option of the business critical tier. The business critical tier provides customers with three secondary copies of their instance. Two are non-readable and the third provides a […]
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
As of October 2018, Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is now generally available in the general purpose tier. Business Critical should be available in the near future. The general purpose tier of Managed Instance being available will now allow businesses to do proof of concepts and be able to elevate those environments to production knowing […]