Month: July 2020

Happy DBA Day!

Michael Wall July 03, 2020 0 Comments
Today is International DBA Appreciation Day! Go hug your local DBA (if they'll let you!) There have been many articles about the death of the DBA, the evolution of the DBA, how to feed a DBA, etc. Rob Sewell has posted on the many meanings of the DBA acronym, and let us not forget that it also means "Doing Business As" to the greater population! So what kind of a business are we doing? In my...

Polybase – It’s what’s for dinner

Michael Wall July 01, 2020 0 Comments
Polybase is a pretty cool technology that was debuted in SQL Server 2016 as part of the Big Data (Clusters) initiative. It got a bit of a facelift in SQL Server 2019 and now is really cool. I've been testing and breaking it in the past few months just for fun, but it got kind of exciting when I applied the SQL Server 2019 CU5 patch on my test cluster. I'll post about these findings as I am able...

PASS – Show us the numbers (you need)!!!

Michael Wall July 01, 2020 0 Comments
Let's face it, we're all data geeks. We love numbers, we love visualizations, we love dashboards (or at least know how to make them!). The PASS board said that they need a "certain amount of registrations to break even and a certain amount to make sure they keep the coffers full for next year". (paraphrased). In fact, an email even came out last week promising some numbers. Great! What are those...