Category Archives: Editorial

The Pace of Data Platform Change

Posted on November 11, 2020 by way0utwest

I was watching Vicky Harp in the 2020 October GroupBy conference recently talking about her challenges of working with the SQL Server platform as it’s grown. It’s a good keynote, with Vicky noting that she started with SQL Server 2000 … Continue reading →

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All In to the Cloud

Posted on November 3, 2020 by way0utwest

I was listening to the fall 2020 GroupBy conference recently and heard Gethyn Ellis note that he wasn’t aware of any companies that were over some age (a decade?), and that had made a 100% move to the cloud. The … Continue reading →

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The Separation of Tools

Posted on November 2, 2020 by way0utwest

I’ve got a question for you today. Is it better to have SSMS and ADS available as separate downloads? If you installed SQL Server prior to 2017 (the year, not the version), you had the option to add Management Studio … Continue reading →

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The Spookiest Year

Posted on October 30, 2020 by way0utwest

Last Halloween I was in Chicago, in one of the biggest cities in the US visiting a customer. This was near the end of a very busy travel year, where I’d been to England 5 times, Australia twice, and was … Continue reading →

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