Making online learning stick takes practice beside each video, short notes, spaced review, and one finished project that uses the skill.
Play by Play with Pinal Dave: Tuning SQL Server Performance
Play by Play with Pinal Dave was my birthday gift on July 30, 2014: a Pluralsight course that shows how I tune SQL Server performance on a real problem. This post tells why I made it and what each of the five modules covers.
Getting Your Employer to Pay for Training
Ask your employer to pay for training with a short proposal that ties the course to work, shows cost, and shares the result with the team.
SQL – Biggest Concerns in a Data Driven World
The snooping debate made users distrust how their data is used. Here are the biggest concerns for companies taking a data driven approach to business.
SQL Bangalore: The First SQL Server User Group Meeting
SQL Bangalore, our new SQL Server user group, held its first meeting on November 24, 2012. We had five 30 minute sessions, a surprise guest from Mumbai and an international guest from the USA. Here is my report, with photographs.
SQL Server Architecture Terminology: A Beginner’s Guide by Anil Kumar
SQL Server architecture terminology is easier to follow when each term can be seen in a running instance. This guest introduction by Anil Kumar covers instances, storage, memory, the transaction log and SQLOS, with tested queries on SQL Server 2025.
SQLAuthority News – Learning Never Ends – Becoming Student Again
Learning should never stop. Visiting a friend’s new training center got me thinking about Becoming Student again, and why I keep learning even from old material.