Kevin Kline

Kevin (@kekline) serves as Principal Program Manager at SentryOne. He is a founder and former president of PASS and the author of popular IT books like SQL in a Nutshell. Kevin is a renowned database expert, software industry veteran, Microsoft SQL Server MVP, and long-time blogger at SentryOne. As a noted leader in the SQL Server community, Kevin blogs about Microsoft Data Platform features and best practices, SQL Server trends, and professional development for data professionals.

Articles by Kevin Kline

Kevin Kline provides his slides and scripts from his new SQLBits session describing the deep internals exposed by the 86xx series of SQL Server trace flags.
Surprising but True: the Basics are Still Difficult
Kevin Kline and Ben Lezin hold a short Q & A with Gavin Payne and Mike Wood about Azure architecture and improvements.
February 23, 2017 | Kevin Kline | SQL Server 2016, Cloud, SQL Server, Azure 0
The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative insight into the performance differences across two versions of a database workload on SQL Server.
Kevin Kline invites you to three webinars coming up in January: A two-part series on the Azure platform, with Gavin Payne; and a session from Paul Stanton on running SQL Server inside Docker containers.
Join Us at the Biggest Annual SQL Server Conference, PASS Summit.
Proof of Concepts: Making Hard Things Easy with Azure
The PASS Summit 2016 keynote featured Joseph Sirosh, CVP, Data Group, Microsoft.
Kevin Kline is speaking at the 2016 PASS Summit. View the sessions he will be speaking at so you can register ahead of time.
Learn more about all of the newest features added to SSMS from Kevin Kline's latest article on DBTA.
Memphis means the blues, barbecue, and BB King, Elvis, and Justin Timberlake. For me and the Horde, it's a recent #SQLVacation stop.
July 19, 2016 | Kevin Kline | Community, SQLVacation, PASS 0
U-SQL and the Azure Data Lake
The #SQLVacation brings more SQL Server training to the capital city Louisiana.
July 11, 2016 | Kevin Kline | Community, SQLPASS, SQLVacation 0
Pensacola is a beautiful seaside town, with an active SQL Server community supporting the government, defense, and software industries.
July 7, 2016 | Kevin Kline | Community, SQLPASS, SQLVacation 1
The #SQLVacation comes to Birmingham, Alabama, to discuss SQLServer tuning with the SteelCitySQL user group.
July 1, 2016 | Kevin Kline | Community, SQLPASS, SQLVacation 0

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