Speaking At Adobe ColdFusion Summit East 2018
I am pleased to announce that I have been invited to speak at the Adobe ColdFusion Summit East in Washington, D.C. This is a free, one day conference which will …
Music City Data Call For Speakers
One of the conferences that I’m looking forward to this year is Music City Data, which takes place May 31-June 2, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. I’m especially excited …
Starting A New Chapter
Today begins a new chapter in my career, and I am excited to announce that I am starting a new position as a Database Development Manager for Centauri Health Solutions! I have …
Notes From A SQL 2017 Azure Install – Automatic Seeding Of An Availability Group TDE Database
One of the neat features introduced with SQL Server 2016 was the automatic seeding of availability groups. And while it seems to work pretty well in most cases, if you …
Speaking At CodeStock 2018
I am happy to announce that I have been selected to speak at CodeStock 2018, in Knoxville TN! I will be giving my “Building Better SQL Server Databases” session, which is …
Extended Event To Track Data And Log File Size Changes
One of the things that a DBA tries to avoid/prevent are automatic file growths in data and log files. We generally like to plan for these things and size the …
Corruption With Backup Compression And TDE In SQL 2017
Last week I spent a good bit of time dealing with a corruption issue, and as it turns out I may actually have found a bug in SQL Server 2017. …
Notes From A SQL 2017 Azure Install – Using A Cloud Witness With An Availability Group
As I build out my new SQL Server 2017 Availability Group in Azure, running on Windows 2016, I’m wanting to leverage some of the new technologies available. I’ve already written …
Slides From Nashville SQL Server User’s Group December 8th Presentation
The slides from my session, Lessons Learned From An Azure Migration, are attached here. Thanks to everyone who attended! If you happened to attend my session, please leave a comment …
Speaking At Nashville SQL Server User’s Group On December 8th
Next Friday, December 8th 2017, I will be speaking at the Nashville SQL Server User’s Group. My topic will be “Lessons Learned From An Azure Migration”, where I will be …