Achievement Unlocked – SQL Bits

Several weeks ago, while on a flight traveling home from San Francisco, I received an exciting email.  I had submitted to speak at SQL Bits and during my flight I was notified that one of my submitted sessions had been selected.  This means that I’ll be traveling to Manchester, England for my first international conference.  […]

Speaking Internationally at SQLBits

  I am very excited and lucky to be speaking at my very first international conference, SQLBits. SQLBits, the largest SQL Server conference in Europe, held in Manchester England February 27- March 2nd. It is a conference for leading data professionals with over 70 sessions from speakers all over the world. I commonly speak at User Groups, SQL Saturdays and other Data Conferences here in the United States and have always wanted to broaden my reach to other countries. I am very much looking forward to seeing how or if conferences differ in Europe.  It is a huge honor to… Continue reading

Really, Really Fast Cloud Storage

For a long time, CPUs and memory got faster, but we were stuck with spinning disks that topped out at 15,000 RPM. We got SSDs which were orders of magnitude faster, but we were still ultimately limited by controller throughput. NVME changes all of that. Do you know what NVME storage is? If you don’t, […]