Moving On After nearly nine years at Microsoft, I’ve chosen to move on. I’ve accepted a position at Fusion-io—now a SanDisk company—as Worldwide SQL Server Solutions Architect where I’ll be evangelizing, documenting best practices, collaborating directly with the Windows & SQL product teams & other partners, doing cutting-edge ...

So the event is over. I think I can say for all three organizers, Mladen Prajdić, Matija Lah, and me, that we are tired now. However, we are extremely satisfied. It was a great event. First few numbers and comparison with SQL Saturday #274, the first SQL Saturday Slovenia event that took place last year. ...

This weekend on December 6, 2014 I continue my evangelization of Columnstore—possibly the most exciting unheralded feature in SQL Server 2014—at SQL Saturday 347 at an auspicious venue: the Microsoft Technology Center in Chevy Chase, proximal to the US capital city of Washington DC. Register, see the schedule, or see the event home page on the ...

In just a week from now, SQL Saturday #337 will kick off in Portland, Oregon. And I will be there – the third time already for me to be speaking in Portland. For a European, Portland is not the most logical location. But the organization over there is a pretty smart bunch of people. They figure that being close to Seattle gives them a great ...

I am proud and glad I can announce two top pre-conference seminars at the PASS SQL Saturday #356 Slovenia conference. The speakers and the seminars titles are: Stacia Misner - Power Up Your Data with Excel and Power BI Kevin Boles - Tune Like A Guru! Both seminars will take place on Friday, December 12th, in the classrooms of our sponsor ...

I am honored to announce Advanced Integration Services will be delivered in cooperation with  in Aarhus, Denmark 18-20 Nov 2014. Target Audience The target audience for this course is intermediate SQL Server Integration Services developers (or quick learners) who wish to learn best practices and the more advanced stuff, and those who wish ...

  Where in the World is AdventureWorks? Recently, SQL Community feedback from twitter prompted me to look in vain for SQL Server 2014 versions of the AdventureWorks sample databases we’ve all grown to know & love. I searched Codeplex, then used the bing & even the google in an effort to locate them, yet all I could find were ...

The session Troubleshooting Clusters by Allan Hirt (@SQLHA) has been published on channel SQLPASS TV. Abstract Whether you are new to clusters or have years of experience, you may still cross your fingers when implementing a failover cluster instance (FCI) of SQL Server or an availability group (AG). Both require an underlying Windows Server ...

When I started this blog, my plan was to focus on two main subject areas. One of them is SQL Server, T-SQL, and performance. The other is database design. Looking back over my post history, I honestly cannot say I delivered on the second area. Not because I have nothing to say about database design, but because I found it doesn’t lend itself for ...

Pure success! I could simply stop here. However, I want to mention again everybody involved in this, and also some who were unfortunately missing. First of all, PASS is the organization that defined SQL Saturdays. And apparently the idea works I have to thank again to all of the speakers. Coming to share your amazing knowledge is something we ...