Category Archives: Editorial

Separate Reads

Posted on November 13, 2024 by way0utwest

Recently I was watching a presentation on how to scale performance in your SQL Server environment and one of the suggestions was setting up Availability Groups (AGs) and having read-intent connections that would query the secondary and not the primary. … Continue reading →

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Time to Change Your Team

Posted on November 11, 2024 by way0utwest

I assume most of you work with others in a team. Even if you are the data specialist and others work on different technologies, you still have a team. How long has your current team been together in this form? … Continue reading →

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Technology Fears

Posted on November 8, 2024 by way0utwest

Recently I had a friend traveling who is not very tech savvy. This person has traveled before and has a routine, but in this case, they were struggling to get an airline’s mobile app to work. They also struggled with … Continue reading →

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What’s New for the Microsoft Data Platform

Posted on November 6, 2024 by way0utwest

Today is the first day at the PASS Data Community Summit and I’m in Seattle where I’ll get to open the conference and introduce the Microsoft keynote. I’m sure the keynote will be full of announcements on something, but what? … Continue reading →

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