The Azure Data team at Microsoft has recently launched new ways for you to learn Azure SQL. There are many free resources available to the community in the form of YouTube videos, blogs, learning paths in Microsoft Learn, GitHub content, hands-on workshops, and live Azure SQL Bootcamp. Hooray! #LearnAzureSQL is live! Join @BobWardMS & @AnalyticAnna to learn how to bring your SQL Server expertise to Azure SQL:#MicrosoftLearn: https://t.co/9tPNdIY5IF YouTube: https://t.co/iMiGNQTJK8@Ch9: https://t.co/pmFAnLhYRY GitHub: https://t.co/xkHflcqGci pic.twitter.com/3TXau9aL53 — Microsoft SQL Serv ..read more

The Azure Data team at Microsoft has recently launched new ways for you to learn Azure SQL. There are many free resources available to the community in the form of YouTube videos, blogs, learning paths in Microsoft Learn, GitHub content, hands-on workshops, and live Azure SQL Bootcamp. Hooray! #LearnAzureSQL is live! Join @BobWardMS & @AnalyticAnna to learn how to bring your SQL Server expertise to Azure SQL:#MicrosoftLearn: https://t.co/9tPNdIY5IF YouTube: https://t.co/iMiGNQTJK8@Ch9: https://t.co/pmFAnLhYRY GitHub: https://t.co/xkHflcqGci pic.twitter.com/3TXau9aL53 — Microsoft SQL Serve ..read more

SQL Saturday Birmingham 2019 was held at the Brock School of Business – Cooney Hall – Samford University on 27th July. The event was a huge success. We had close to 200 folks registered to the event and had a final turnaround of around 150. If you have not attended a SQL Saturday event before or are not familiar with the concept – It is a free training event for Microsoft Data Platform professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server, Business Intelligence, Application Development, PowerShell  and Analytics. It is a great opportunity to listen to some of the best speakers around, i ..read more

I am delighted to be speaking at SQL Saturday Jacksonville 2019. This will be my first time speaking at this event. SQL Saturday is a free training event for Microsoft Data Platform professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server and Cloud Technologies. It is a great opportunity to listen to some of the best speakers around, interact with the brightest minds and network with the awesome SQL Family. SQLSaturday Jacksonville will be held on May 04 2019 at The University of North Florida Campus, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, Florida, 32224, United States. You can view the Event Schedule he ..read more

Last week during a presentation, one of the attendees asked me about my favorite feature in Azure Data Studio. This was an interesting question and I thought of writing down a quick blog post on this. It’s been over a year that I have almost stopped using Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio during my day to day work. These are the 2 tools which I have used most of my career as a Developer. I decided to move from Windows to Mac at work, hence I needed some tools which were cross-platform. Visual Studio Code and SQL Operations Studio(Azure Data Studio) came to the rescue. Both these t ..read more

Problem Statement — We bumped into a Flyway error while trying to deploy some new schema changes against an existing database. It was a Java Microservice using Jenkins as the CI/CD tool for deployment. The build pipeline was not able to deploy the schema changes to our Test/DevQA environment, since it was not able to connect to Eureka. When we looked at the logs in SumoLogic, we found multiple errors logged by the application indicating issues with Flyway — Application startup failed Error creating bean with name ‘flywayInitializer’ defined in class path resource Invocation of init method fa ..read more

I am happy and honored to be a Friend of Redgate 2019 — my 2nd year in a row. The Friends of Redgate program is an exclusive group of influential and active community members, such as popular blog writers, speakers, consultants, as well as Microsoft Data Platform MVPs. I have always appreciated RedGate’s support and their investment towards the SQL Community. They sponsor a large number of User Group meetings, SQL Saturdays and other conferences. Personally I am a huge advocate of anything that helps with productivity – tools that helps you being more efficient. I am sure no one wants to do a ..read more

It’s almost time for SQL Saturday Pensacola and I am excited to be speaking at this fun filled event this weekend. I had lot of fun last year during this event & I am looking forward to have an awesome time this year too. SQL Saturday Pensacola will be held on Jun 02 2018 at Pensacola State College, Main Campus, 1000 College Blvd, Pensacola, Florida, 32504. SQL Saturday is a free training event for Microsoft Data Platform professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server, Business Intelligence and Analytics. It is a great opportunity to listen to some of the best speakers around ..read more

I am excited to be presenting at SQL Saturday Atlanta this weekend. This will be my 2nd year speaking at this awesome conference. I am looking forward to meet lot of folks from the Tech community and have a good time with friends and SQLFamily.   Seems like there are more than 900 folks registered already, so hope to have an absolute rocking time out there. You can find the session schedule here – http://www.sqlsaturday.com/733/Sessions/Schedule.aspx We currently have 888 people signed up for #SQLSatATL Speakers better bring their "A" game because attendees will be there, waiting for it ..read more

Blue-Green Deployment is a software pattern to deploy and release your application with minimal downtime and risk. This is achieved by maintaining multiple production-ready environments at the same time – termed as Blue and Green. At any point of time, one of the environment is active & receives all the production traffic. When time comes for a new release, the changes are deployed to the other non-active identical environment. This can serve as the staging server and all the sanity testing is performed here. Once the changes are verified, you just flip the switch and all the traffic is no ..read more