DataMoshpit!
Posted on September 16, 2023
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| spaghettidba
Today I'm presenting at DataMospit, the most metal conference in the data space!
You can download the Sea of Madness bingo card from here: https://github.com/spaghettidba/CodeSamples/raw/master/SQLServerInfernals/InfernalBingo.xlsx
The winner will get a 1 year subscription to QMonitor, the fantastic SQL Server monitoring solution from Quantumdatis.
Good luck!
Code signing for mere mortals
Posted on June 10, 2023
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| spaghettidba
Well, turns out code signing is pretty complex, so I'm writing this blog post as a guide for my future self. I hope he will appreciate, and perhaps some of you may find it useful as well.
The need for code signing There is a lot of malware out there, we all know it, so you'd better be careful with what you download and install on your computer. Browsers try to help with that and will warn you when you download a suspicious piece of software:
[Read More]SQLSaturday is dead, long live DataSaturdays
Posted on December 18, 2020
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| spaghettidba
This is a very brief post to inform you that PASS has died, killed by the for-profit company behind it. That's sad beyond words, but we, as a community, are not destined to the same fate. The community will rise again and build something new.
One of the things that we don't want to lose is SQLSaturday. It's been a substantial vehicle for involving community members locally and globally. It has been the launchpad for many community speakers.
[Read More]Generating a Jupyter Notebook for Glenn Berry's Diagnostic Queries with PowerShell
Posted on March 20, 2019
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| spaghettidba
The March release of Azure Data Studio now supports Jupyter Notebooks with SQL kernels. This is a very interesting feature that opens new possibilities, especially for presentations and for troubleshooting scenarios.
For presentations, it is fairly obvious what the use case is: you can prepare notebooks to show in your presentations, with code and results combined in a convenient way. It helps when you have to establish a workflow in your demos that the attendees can repeat at home when they download the demos for your presentation.
[Read More]Using Virtual Desktops for Presentations
Posted on March 13, 2017
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| spaghettidba
Today I was reading William Durkin‘s fine post on Presentation Mode in SSMS vNext when inspiration struck.
One of the things that really annoys me when presenting is the transition between slides and demos. Usually, I try to improve the process as much as possible by having the least minimum amount of windows open while presenting, so that I don’t land on the wrong window. Unfortunately, that is not always easy.
[Read More]Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Posted on February 27, 2017
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| spaghettidba
In the next few months I will be speaking at some awesome events around Europe.
SQLBits - April 5-8 SQLBits is THE SQL Server event in Europe, with a very long tradition and a fantastic audience. I totally love SQLBits! This time I will speak about “Benchmarking like a PRO”. In this session I will demonstrate how to capture a baseline with RML Utilities and how to replay it against a target machine to compare baseline and benchmarks.
[Read More]Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Posted on April 14, 2016
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| spaghettidba
The next few months will be crazy for me. I will be travelling a lot around Europe, speaking about SQL Server topics.
Here is where you will find me in the upcoming weeks:
May 4: SQLNexus SQLNexus is a new conference in Copenhagen and will be the official launch event in Denmark for SQL Server 2016. I will speak about "Responding to Extended Events in near Real-Time". May 5: SQLBits SQLBits doesn't need to be introduced.
[Read More]Hangout #18 with Boris Hristov
Posted on April 18, 2014
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| spaghettidba
Yesterday evening I had the honour and pleasure of recording one of his famous SQL Hangout with my friend Boris Hristov (b|t).
We discussed some of the new features in SQL Server 2014, in particular the new Cardinality Estimator and the Delayed Durability. Those are definitely interesting innovations and something everybody should be checking out when planning new work on SQL Server 2014. The two features have nothing to do with each other, but we decided to speak about both of them nevertheless.
[Read More]RunCore mSata SSD on Dell precision laptops
Posted on October 19, 2011
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| spaghettidba
What I was planning to write on this post is a total different story from the one you will read here. I was ready to describe in detail how to open the laptop, put the drive in and combine the speed of SSD with the capacity of traditional spin disks on your laptop.
Well, you won’t read anything about that here: despite being advertised as compatible on the product page, this mSata drive won’t work on Dell precision laptops.
[Read More]The Spaghetti-Western Database
Posted on June 28, 2011
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| spaghettidba
Today I noticed in my WordPress site stats that somebody landed on this blog from a search engine with the keywords “spaghetti dba”.
I found it hilarious that somebody was really searching for me that way, and I performed the search on Google to see how this blog would rank.
The third result from Google made me chuckle: The Spaghetti-Western Database Trailer. And here is the video showing on that page:
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