Join me for a PASS Summit Pre-Con
I am very excited to announce I will be delivering a pre-conference session on SQL Server Performance Tuning on November 5th at PASS Summit 2019. If you have ever attended one of my sessions, you know how passionate I am about this particular topic. So, you also know how very excited I am to have this opportunity to spend a full day talking about SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization. Performance Tuning is one of my favorite things to do with SQL Server. There is nothing like seeing performance improvements in an environment as your reward for your hard work.… Continue reading
Getting Started with the Cloud with No Budget and an Unsupportive Employer
This thread on Twitter last night really piqued my interest: Looking for your Ideas – The biggest challenge at the moment is explain to traditional #ITPro audiences why upskilling in the cloud is important. How are you communicating this message w/o alienating them? Discuss. — Michael Bender (@MichaelBender) April 10, 2019 It really made […]
Power BI: Where Should My Data Live? Webcast
When you start a Power BI project, you need to decide how and where you should store the data in your dataset. There are three “traditional” options: Imported Model: Data is imported and compressed and stored in the PBIX file, which is then published to the Power BI Service (or Report Server if you are… Continue reading Power BI: Where Should My Data Live? Webcast
Another Year Gone, Another Year as a VMware vExpert
Another year has past, and VMware has decided to make me a VMware vExpect again. I believe that this is the 5th time I’ve been a VMware vExpect (the 4th time in a row, there was a gap year because I forgot to fill out the form, it was a thing). I’m thrilled that VMware…
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Women in Tech Talk Tech
March is Women’s History Month, to celebrate the PASS Women in Technology Virtual Group (@PASS_WIT) held a webcast featuring prominent woman in the Data Platform community. I had the pleasure of being one of five panelists alongside these amazing women Lori Edwards (B|T), Malathi Mahadevan (B|T), Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman (B|T), and Catherine Wilhemsen (B|T). Discussion ranged from direct technical topics to what it’s like being a woman in tech. Women took turns providing advice around having a degree and/or certification to succeed in tech. We discussed how to keep up with advances in the field and skills that technologists should have.… Continue reading
I thought my days of Linux were over
Oh, how wrong I was. Back in the day, all I worked on was Microsoft SQL Server. These days I’m doing some Microsoft SQL Server and a decent amount of Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS cloud work. With all three of those, there’s a lot of Linux in play. Microsoft SQL Server has supported Linux…
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