Speaking at MADPASS This Week

Tomorrow I am making the trek up to Madison to speak at MADPASS! I had a great time there last year and am looking forward to heading back.

I’ll be giving my talk on SQL Server’s data compression feature entitled “The Skinny on Data Compression.” I’ll be explaining how data compression works and sharing some of the things I’ve [...]

T-SQL Tuesday #41 Recap

A huge thank you to all who took the time to write posts for T-SQL Tuesday #41. I was overwhelmed at the number of replies! I had a ton of them to read, as well as back-to-back SQL Saturdays in Madison and Chicago that have kept me busy the past few weeks, hence the delay in [...]

T-SQL Tuesday #41 - How I Came to Love Presenting

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by…ME! I asked everyone to share stories of how they came to love presenting, and I have not one but two tales of my own. They both took place at about the same time: my freshman year at the University of Illinois. I can’t remember which one came first, [...]

Invitation to T-SQL Tuesday #41 - Presenting and Loving it!

It’s been almost two years since I last hosted T-SQL Tuesday, and I’m very happy to be doing so again! If you’re not already familiar, T-SQL Tuesday was the brainchild of Adam Machanic (@AdamMachanic), who prophesized that we all could benefit from “a recurring, revolving blog party” with a new topic given each month. This [...]

Moving A Database to New Storage With No Downtime

It’s once again the second Tuesday of the month, meaning it’s T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s topic comes to us from Jen McCown (blog | @JenniferMcCown). Jen is asking us to share our knowledge about filegroups, and it just so happens that I have a story about migrating to new storage that involved a large number [...]