PASS Summit Speaker Idol 2016 Is a Go!

If you have attended the PASS Summit for the last couple of years you probably heard about the PASS Summit Speaker Idol competition that has happened for the last couple of years. If you haven’t, you are now. For those that haven’t been to the PASS Summit before its a great conference to learn a…

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Rise Services: Time Slice DBA and Disaster Recovery

With headquarters in Arizona, Rise is a nonprofit organization that specializes in home and community-based support services for children and adults with developmental and other disabilities, children with mental health challenges, aging adults and children and families with foster care and adoption needs. For 25 years their purpose has remained constant. They create opportunities for […]

What Happens to Pages in the Buffer Pool when your Availablity Group Fails Over?

Recently at SQL Saturday Philadelphia, we started discussing failover  as it relates to mirroring and Always On Availability Groups. Specifically, we were wondering what would happen if you had a relatively busy readable secondary replica (which would have a lot of pages in the buffer pool on the secondary instance) and if those pages would […]

I’ll be speaking at PASS Summit 2016

I’m thrilled and honored to have been selected to speak at the PASS Summit again.  This year I’ll be presenting a session titled Database Security in SQL Server 2016 and beyond. In this session we will review the new enhancements to SQL Server security available in SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL DB, including Always…

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PASS Summit 2016 I’m Speaking

I have been honored to be selected to speak at this October’s PASS Global Summit in Seattle this October. I will be speaking on a topic near and dear to my heart, Security in Azure SQL Database. I worked last year to write a white paper with Stacia Varga and Microsoft discussing the best practices […]

Getting around annoying outbound firewall rules at venues when presenting.

Presentations that are given are user groups, events, etc. often require demos.  Sometimes those demos are to large or complex to run on a laptop.  To get around this problem people will use Azure for their demos.  Doing this, depending on the demo, requires using RDP to connect to the VM in Azure so that…

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