Once again it is PASS Summit week in Seattle. This is the biggest event in the world for SQL Server and Microsoft Data Professionals to gather to connect, Frye First Time Speaker share and learn. I will never forget being anxious and scared the first time I gave a presentation at PASS in front of […]
With Microsoft’s Ignite conference this week a lot of new features are being advertised all over the internet. Most likely if you are following along you have heard of Big Data Clusters, Spark, Performance Tuning, and security features. I am really excited about this new feature and hope you are as excited about it too. […]
[Updated on 10/25/2018] With MSIgnite being this week tons of great new features are being announced. While many will focus on Spark integration, performance tuning, security, and containers sometimes it’s the simple things that give us the most value. I will talk about a feature that is hidden on page 17 in Microsoft’s SQL 2019 […]
I had a blast speaking at SQL Saturday Denver. To help everyone moving to SQL Server 2017 I have included my slides and demo code below. If you end up having any questions with the code or need help feel free to contact me. SQL Saturday Denver Bonus Content You can also review our SQL […]
In SQL Server 2016 we saw Query Store. Query Store was a game changer to help database administrators identify troublesome queries. Query Store helps DBAs make those queries run faster. Microsoft’s marketing team even jumped on to help coin the phrase, “SQL Server It Just Runs Faster.” With SQL Server 2017, this started to get […]
I hope everyone enjoyed my session on Making Your Queries Go Faster as much as I did planning and delivering it. If you would like to replay the demos on your time you can grab the slide and code . When you go through the demos, if you have any questions, give me a shout. […]
John Sterrett shares his thoughts on successfully transitioning to an entry-level IT job. Recently, I worked with AITP to share some tips that helped me successfully transition from a Computer Engineering student at the University of Oklahoma to an entry-level information technology professional. Once, I completed the interview I noticed that my advice was more […]
Some of my friends know I am a huge fan of the song “Havana” by Camila Cabello. They also know I like to remix songs and if I was to remix the song I would just change the word “Havana” to “Wheeling, WV” because half of my heart is in the Ohio Valley. Why? Wheeling […]
Last weekend I had a blast speaking at the SQL Saturday in Chicago. It was awesome to share my knowledge and also catch up with some good friends. My talk was on Automating the Pain Away with Query Store and Automated Tuning. I hope this session helped people understand Query Store and Automated Tuning as […]
This week at MVP Summit I got to talk with a friend who loves profiler. We were talking about capturing workloads and doing analysis on them. T-SQL or other 3rd party tools like ClearTrace, ReadTrace would be used to aggregate the data to get insight into the top offenders. I mentioned that workload analysis could be […]