It’s that time of year again folks and March Madness is upon us. Last year I did a blog series on the system tables found within SQL Server. This year I am leaving the earth-bound editions of SQL Server behind and will focus on SQL Azure.
If you are new to SQL Azure then I will [...]
I resisted the urge to take part in the meme for a while, but recently I had a handful of folks convince me to just put something together, so here you go.
It’s Sunday evening. You are sitting down to have dinner with your family. Suddenly your phone rings. You want to ignore it because, let’s face it, your phone rings a lot. But you see the person calling and knowing they don’t call very often you decide to answer. On the other end of the line [...]
No one can predict the future.
And yet it seems as if we all tend to worry about what the future will hold for us. As data professionals we are bombarded every day with new concepts and buzzwords like ‘cloud’, ‘big data’, ‘PaaS’, and ‘Snooki’. For many server and database admins these terms represent an unknown [...]