Hopefully, everyone is back into the swing of things as we are in the middle of week three of 2024! Here are some videos, tips, and interesting links we have viewed at Procure SQL. The Feature That Should Have Been Scrapped If you take anything away from reading this newsletter, please make sure you don’t […]
Hopefully, everyone is back into the swing of things as we are in the middle of week two of 2024! Here are some videos, tips, and interesting links we have viewed at Procure SQL. Free Government Data Russ Loski helps us understand why data that has changed in 2023 might relate to data you do […]
Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a happy holiday season. Here are some videos, tips and links we found interesting at Procure SQL. Developer’s Still Love Free Stuff! Stack overflow’s 2023 survey shows that developers like free databases. Maybe this is why Microsoft made a Free version of Azure Managed Instances? Why are SQL […]
In the beginning of my IT career, I was a developer. I wrote a lot of bad code that didn’t perform well. As more data entered my tables my stored procedures got slower and slower. More data, more problems! I started my career in performance tuning by making my crappy code a little less crappy. […]
Austin Texas SQL Saturday was a success! Procure SQL would not exist if it wasn’t for #SQLFamily and the SQL Community. Therefore, we always want to help connect, share and learn with our local data community. In 2010 I hosted my first SQL Saturday #36 in Wheeling, WV. One thing in common with my first […]
SQL Saturday Austin is coming to Austin Texas. That’s right, you heard it here first! Free SQL Server training in Austin, TX! SQL Saturday Austin is Feb 24th and 25 We hope you had a great holiday season. With the new year everyone made goals and resolutions. Are you looking to take your IT career […]
Procure SQL is proud to be speaking and sponsoring SQL Saturday Jacksonville this weekend. Join us and several other amazing community speakers as we all share our knowledge with the community. The event will be on Saturday, May 14th, 2022, at University of North Florida. You can sign up for free here. We look forward […]
Have slow queries and want to get down to the basics of learning some fundamentals for performance tuning? If so, John Sterrett is giving an talk at the Nashville User Group (Online) tomorrow. Feel free to join us. If you are local to Nashville make sure you sign up for their future meetings. Join us […]
SQL Server 2022 was announced yesterday at Microsoft’s Ignite Conference. Here are some of the items that caught our attention. This includes SQL Server 2022 Announcements and other announcements around the Microsoft Data Platform. SQL Server 2022 First Thoughts The following is a summary of some of my favorite announcements with some initial thoughts. Bi-directional […]
Want to save money, validate performance, and make sure you don’t have errors while migrating to Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server RDS in Amazon AWS? In this video, you will learn how to use the Data Experimentation Assistant to replay and compare your on-premise or cloud SQL Server workloads on-demand. First, […]