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SQL Saturday NYC 2025 Conference, a Success!

Once again, the organizers and volunteers of SQL Saturday NYC created a wonderful experience at the Microsoft Times Square office! Continue reading

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Streamline Compliance with Microsoft Purview Solutions

Microsoft Purview is a suite of solutions that can help your organization govern, protect, and manage data, wherever it lives. Microsoft Purview provides an integrated solution. It helps tackle the fragmentation of data across organizations. Visibility improves with data protection and … Continue reading

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Microsoft Fabric was announced at Build 2023! This is excellent stuff. I recommend you read Matt Roche’s blog below.

With an introduction like that, I should probably remind everyone that this is my personal blog, my personal perspective, and my personal opinions. Although I am a Microsoft employee, I am not speaking for or otherwise representing my employer with … Continue reading

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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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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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The privilege of teaching others

Originally posted on George Walters:
This past weekend, I realized was blessed by quite a few things: 1) An understanding wife, who lets me go and train people in other cities while dealing with our children. 2) The SQL Saturday…

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How I Work – Using OneNote For My Daily Task List

Originally posted on Caffeinated Data Science:
It’s not overstating things to say that I use Microsoft OneNote in every part of my life. I use it to create and track projects at work; categorize, list and annotate the technologies I…

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SQL Blogs from Microsoft – The List

Originally posted on Caffeinated Data Science:
We have migrated several active and inactive MSDN blogs to these new combined blogs.? If you’re wondering where the content went, here’s a table that lists the old blog and the new URL for…

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HIMSS 2019 Healthcare IT Conference

I attended my first HIMSS19 conference this past week. What a whirlwind of excitement! Below is a picture of our booth. Microsoft for healthcare? Why yes! Microsoft has been industry-deep for a couple of years now. I have evolved my … Continue reading

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New Ignite 2018 Announcements, Day 1! Azure! Azure Stack! SQL Server!

At Ignite on the first day, we had a large slate of announcements, crossing from the public Azure cloud, to Azure stack, to SQL Server. Continue reading

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