Author Archives: George Walters

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About George Walters

Director, Data and AI Specialist in Health and Life Sciences on Major accounts. Keynote speaker, father, and not-for-profit board member.

SQL Saturday NYC 2023! A Success!

SQL Saturdays are an amazing, volunteer-led, conference held in various cities. The NYC 2023 SQL Saturday was great! Continue reading

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MySQL on Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has the community edition of mysql available as a platform service for you to run your mission critical workloads while alleviating administrative overhead Continue reading

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Presenting to others – Yes, you can.

Now that Covid has receded from the forefront, in-person events are getting back into the swing. October 2022! I had the great pleasure of presenting to both SQL Saturday Boston, as well as the Capital Area SQL Server user group … Continue reading

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Azure SQL Vulnerability Assessment

The goal of this post is to show Azure SQL Database, and how the vulnerability scans available can help you baseline security, and how to remediate one of the items. Azure SQL Database is a great way to host your … Continue reading

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Linkedin learning and Teams: Working remotely

I wanted to share some resources to help businesses out in this day and age. These links are both about managing and working remotely, as well as using Teams to facilitate videoconferencing. I have a previous post as well for … Continue reading

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How to have remote meetings in today’s world

Having effective remote meetings is a challenge. This guide may help you succeed in terms of procedures and tooling. Continue reading

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How to choose a cloud relational database when you know SQL Server

When choosing to migrate applications into Azure, many organizations want to reduce the burden of patching and maintenance. Going towards platform as a service (PaaS) helps in this journey. If you have some control over the code used in the … Continue reading

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10 years of people and technology: What did I learn?

How a technical support professional evolved into a speaker, mentor, and key hiring decision maker. Continue reading

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Best practices for SQL Server Availability

Microsoft, since 2012, has recommended Always-On Availability Groups as the Tier 1 solution for SQL Server databases. Here are the “Always On” Architecture guides: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlalwayson/2012/07/03/alwayson-architecture-guides/ In particular, this guide is thorough, is written by still-famous experts in the SQL Server world, … Continue reading

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Modern Migration Tour: SQL 2019 upgrade event in Burlington MA

Want to learn how to upgrade from SQL 2008/R2 to a more modern version? This roadshow will help you learn the tools necessary to do so! Continue reading

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