Microsoft Press (@MicrosoftPress) has recently announced the publication of the Second Preview of the eBook Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2016!  In this second preview, the authors: Stacia Varga (@_StaciaV_), Denny Cherry (@mrdenny), and Joseph D'Antoni (@jdanton) introduce three new security features: Always Encrypted, ...

The release of the latest three versions of SQL Server (2008 R2, 2012 and 2014) has been accompanied by the publication of their respective eBooks. Today, a post on Microsoft Press Blog has announced the publication of the Preview Edition of the eBook Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2016!  This preview eBook contains only three ...

I was amazed at the results when I just did a search of SQLBlog, and realized no one had really blogged here about the changes to the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) program. Greg Low described the MCM program when he decided to pursue the MCM at the end of 2008, but two years later, at the end of 2010, Microsoft completely changed the ...

I am in Tucson again, having just recorded two more online workshops to be broadcast by SSWUG. We haven't set the dates yet, but we are thinking about offering a special package deal for the two of them. The topics really are related and I think they would work well together. They are both on aspects of Query Processing. The first was on how to ...

I know it's been a while since my last post, and there is a specific reason for that, which I am going to tell you about. On February 5th, I emailed to my editor the LAST chapter of my new book, after the author reviews and all comments from the editors were answered. I was technically done, except for a bit of work on the Intro, etc. Less than an ...