If you haven’t done so by now, here is your chance to sign up to a free full day of SQL Server training. The last couple of years (read my recaps here and here) the event has attracted around 200 curious sql server developer/admin/bi/adhoc professionals not only from around the country, but also from countries around Europe. Your…
Category Archives: Programming
Creating a Striped Disk on Your Azure VM
This is my eighth post in a series of entry-level posts, as suggested by Tim Ford (b|l|t) in this challenge. I have not set any scope for the topics of my, at least, twelve (12) posts in this blog category of mine, but I can assure, it’ll be focused on SQL Server stuff. This time, it’s a little trick on how…
Speaking at #SqlSatGothenburg
This coming Saturday I will be speaking at the SqlSaturday event in Gothenburg, Sweden. My session will be evolving around Azure IoT Hub, a Raspberry Pi3 device running the latest Windows 10 Core operating system. So if you want to know more about the options for Internet of Things in Azure. If you are in the…
#SqlSatDublin (#SqlSat501) – ReCap
Friday Last week I left home, bound for Dublin, to attend and speak at the SQLSaturday event organized by Bob Duffy (b|l|t), Carmel Gunn (b|l|t), Ben Watt (l|t), Dan Galavan (b|l|t) and many others. I arrived in Dublin on Friday, getting settled in at the hotel, then took a quick peek at the venue, which was right on…
SQL Server 2016 RTM available as Azure VM
As of today, the latest release of SQL Server is available as a Virtual Machine on Microsofts Azure Platform. In a matter of minutes you’ll be able to try out all the new features that was added. I am, among other things, looking forward to play with DBCC for Analysis Services and see what optimizations…
