Thomas LaRock
My final event of the year will be Black Hat Europe in London, the first week in December. This will be my second Black Hat event; the first was this past August when me and 20,000 of my closest security professional friends invaded Las Vegas. I know it may seem odd for a career database … Read more
Earlier this month Microsoft and GigaOM announced a new benchmark study comparing AWS RDS to Azure SQL Database. This study was authored by the same people that wrote the previous GigaOM data warehouse benchmark last year. I enjoyed the data warehouse study. I found it to be fair and thorough enough to help the reader … Read more
I’ve already written a post about how dashboards are a horrible way to communicate. I’m here today to remind you that your dashboards still suck. Let’s start with the most recent example. This image is a useless piece of information. I’m certain somewhere there is a developer proud of how they took a donut chart … Read more
SQL Server performance objects are found inside the Performance Monitor tool, also known as perfmon. If you are using Performance Monitor for gathering resource metrics for SQL Server then you are familiar with a screen such as this one: You can see I have navigated to the SQL Server Plan Cache counter, selected Cache Hit … Read more
Late last Friday night, Microsoft announced that it was retiring the Microsoft Professional Program. The reaction from many was a general “WTH is that anyway?” Frequent readers of this blog will recognize the program where I earned certifications in Data Science, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence. I was also just shy of certifications in Cybersecurity … Read more
I am happy, honored, and humbled to receive the Microsoft MVP award for the eleventh straight year. I still recall my first MVP award and how it got caught in the company spam folder. Good times.
