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Data Saturday Event Creation

March 27th, 2024

Data Saturdays were created back in 2020 with the first event held on January 23, 2021, in Guatemala. Creating an..

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Enabling SQL Agent Service after Upgrading from Express

February 19th, 2024

SQL Server Express edition is a fantastic product as an entry into using SQL Server for your applications. The main..

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SSMS Tips and Tricks

January 18th, 2024

Working in SQL Server Management Studio is potentially an everyday occurrence for you! And having to work with many queries..

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Pass Summit 2019

November 14th, 2019

Pass Summit 2019 was once again on in Seattle Washington, USA from Monday 04 November – Friday 8 November. This..

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Data Privacy, Security and Ethics for the Data-Driven Professional

November 14th, 2019

In this day and age of data explosion as a Data Professional we need to take this very seriously. When..

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Pass Summit 2019

November 6th, 2019

Pass Summit 2019 starts today in Seattle. Day 1 Keynote brings us a lot of news for all things in..

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Hypothetical Indexes – Part 1

September 23rd, 2019

I recently came across a production SQL Server with a large amount of hypothetical indexes – nearly 1000. I’d occasionally..

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Azure Data Studio–4

August 27th, 2019

Azure Data Studio gives you the ability to configure various options to meet your requirements on how you work. This..

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Azure Data Studio–3

August 22nd, 2019

Azure Data Studio is a true Multi-platform tool (Windows, MacOS or Linux) that allows us to manage and maintain our..

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Unified Azure SQL Experience

August 22nd, 2019

Microsoft has been working hard to provide us a better user experience inside of our Azure Portal environment to make..

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SQL Server Service Broker–Part 1

August 21st, 2019

There’s several ‘hidden gems’ in SQL Server, and some of these have been in the product for quite some time..

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SQLSaturday #875 – Sydney (Azure Data Studio)

July 29th, 2019

SQLSaturday #875 Sydney, Australia is back on Saturday 03 August, 2019 and if you have not yet registered there is..

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Hi, I'm Warwick Rudd, I am a Microsoft Data Platform MVP as well as a Microsoft Certified Master working as the Principal Consultant here at SQL Masters Consulting.
In my blog I will look at all things SQL Server as well as some things outside of the SQL Server relm but hopefully you will find them helpful and interesting.

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