Kevin Kline describes a new Webinar featuring Sabin IO. If you're a DBA who must remedy poor performance on a SQL Server then you'll want to check this out. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

Kevin Kline asks data pros what their Groundhog Day moments are--the things in their career as a data professional that keep popping up over and over again, like a bad dream. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

MS MVP Kevin Kline walks through two ways to prepare for a peaceful and uninterrupted holiday: technology and process. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

Want to download the slide deck and T-SQL scripts for the presentation "Architecture Choices that Impact Performance of Microsoft SQL Server?" Get them here! Click HERE to read more. … [Read more...]

Microsoft directly hosts a handful of big conferences every year, with the developer-oriented Build conference and infrastructure-oriented Ignite being to two that I pay the most attention to. The Microsoft Build 2019 conference just wrapped up and we have a couple important new announcements for the those of us working with the Microsoft Data Platform. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

Together with support of Warwick Rudd and the team at SQLMasters Consulting, I will be appearing at nine events and venues in Australia and New Zealand. Let's meet in person and talk about SQL Server! Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

Cross-Country Roadshows in the Nordics This Week! Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

Will the DBA disappear? No, far from it. But specific skills needed by DBAs and certain job roles fulfilled by DBAs will certainly change as we move to the cloud. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

If you haven't been paying a lot of attention, you might have missed the rise of a new form of virtualization, based at the operating system level, called "containers." While there are many specific software programs, by far the most prominent is Docker. So, from here on out, consider "Docker" and "container" to be synonymous. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]

About 5,500 of the SQL Server faithful came out for the PASS Summit 2018 in Seattle last November. As usual, the event had the feel of a great big family reunion. It's always a fun time, with lots of socializing in the halls of the conference center and at the various restaurants and gathering places around town. The training was also top-notch this year with more than 16 tracks of sessions going on from early morning until evening—literally hundreds of SQL Server developer, DBA, architect, BI, and data science session. Click HERE to read more … [Read more...]