Earlier this year I wrote a blog series on the system tables available in SQL Azure. It was not long after that series was done that I was asked to be the technical reviewer for a book about SQL Azure. I jumped at the chance to learn even more about SQL Azure, because I know that … Read more
I’ve known Rob Collie (blog | @powerpivotpro) for over two years now, ever since he accosted me at TechEd in 2010. Since then we’ve met up at some SQL Saturdays, the 2010 PASS Summit, and we even collaborated on the computing power and hard dollar costs adjusted for inflation. And by “collaborated” I mean “I emailed Rob and … Read more
If you could give just one thing to a person you know is starting out as a DBA, what would it be? Well, my book, of course. And as luck would have it, Apress is offering a 40% sale until Christmas, use the code SNOW11 at the checkout. I bet if you ordered it today … Read more
