by David | Jan 29, 2022 | Best Practices, Cloud, Events, Professional Development, SQL Server, User Groups
I am looking forward to presenting to the Ohio North Database Training User Group this Tuesday, February 1st, starting at 4:00pm CST. It is exciting for me to kickoff another year of virtual presentations to my fellow SQL Server Data Professionals looking to...
by David | Nov 23, 2020 | Best Practices, Business, Cloud, Events, Performance, SQL Server, Tech Video
After architecting and migrating some of the world’s largest data platforms, Let’s walk through my top ten must ask questions before migrating to the cloud so that you can save time, money, and grief. This is a must watch for every CXO that wants to begin...
by David | Nov 17, 2020 | Cloud, Events, Performance, Professional Development, SQL Server, User Groups, Virtualization
Whether you caught a single session, took a pre-con, or filled your schedule last week with multiple sessions, l’m going to review last week’s PASS Virtual Summit 2020 conference! The week of November 9th to 13th held the annual PASS Summit conference this year....
by David | Oct 1, 2020 | Announcements, Best Practices, Cloud, Events, Performance, Professional Development, SQL Server, Technology, User Groups
Whether you are a SQL Server Database Administrator or Infrastructure Architect, you should be attending this year’s PASS Summit 2020 conference, held virtually from November 10 to 13th online. I am thrilled to deliver a preconference boot camp called ‘Amplify...
by David | Dec 3, 2019 | Cloud, Performance, SQL Server, Technology, Virtualization
GigaOm, an independent research firm that I highly respect, released a study today comparing performance and price between a SQL Server VM on Microsoft’s Azure platform and a SQL Server VM on Amazon’s AWS EC2 platform. Azure is the clear winner. But,...