This video is a bit different from my normal fare, but by about halfway through the film I knew I wanted to do this. https://youtu.be/4v0gIjX1EcI Links of Note Jim Lovell's 1968 CorvetteThe movie script I used (which includes some of the differences between the film and reality)NASA's flight journal for Apollo 13, including a great…
Upcoming Events: SQL Saturday Montreal
Key Details What: SQL Saturday Montreal.Where: Internet Montreal.When: Saturday, November 21st.Admission is free. Register on the SQL Saturday website. What I’m Presenting 3:00 PM — 04:00 PM EST — Data Virtualization with PolyBase
Upcoming Events: Data Platform Summit 2020
I've talked about Data Platform Summit before, but now that we're close to go time, I wanted to mention it again. This year, I will be presenting one breakout session and one training class. The breakout session is entitled Optimizing Backup Performance using Data Science Techniques. In it, I walk through the configuration settings we…
Q&A: The Curated Data Platform
On Thursday, I presented a session at PASS Summit entitled The Curated Data Platform. You can grab slides and links to additional information on my website. Thank you to everyone who attended the session. During and after the session, I had a few questions come in from the audience, and I wanted to cover them…
Approaching Zero: The Video
Thanks to a bit of gentle nudging from Anthony Nocentino (b | t), I've finally put together a recording of my session entitled Approaching Zero: Minimizing Downtime During Deployments. https://youtu.be/XDwXPXsdNN4 I tried to work the word "asymptotic" into the title, but my editor didn't let me. It's a long video but there's a lot of…
PASS Virtual Summit is Next Week
I have two sessions at PASS Virtual Summit 2020 next week, one a full-day training and the other a general session. SQL Server on the Edge: a Full-Day Training Next Monday, I'm giving a pre-con on using SQL Server, .NET Core, and Azure to help solve IoT issues. We'll walk through a realistic scenario involving…
PolyBase and Postgres
Last month, I presented at year 4 of SQL Trail, a conference normally in Richmond, Virginia but entirely online this year due to obvious reasons. Before the conference, one of the attendees asked for a session on PolyBase, specifically around accessing Postgres data from SQL Server. I didn't have an example on that, so figured…
36 Chambers - The Legendary Journeys: Execution to the max! 