Russ Thomas – SQL Judo
The Art of SQL Server Database Administration, Development, and Career Skills for the Technically Minded
Who is SQL Judo?
Russ Thomas
@SQLJudo
http://stackexchange.com/users/96384/rthomas
Denver CO – Previously Portland OR
My greatest accomplishment in life is the love of a woman named Nicole and the blessing of four children who look a lot like their mom and a little like me. Aside from that I’m pretty good with SQL Server and databases in general.
I’ve made a career modeling, developing, architecting, and administering databases since 1996, with some BI thrown in along the way.
Away from technology I’ve had some other adventures including several years as a police driving instructor at Portland Int Raceway, 9 years as a fully commissioned deputy with Clark County Sheriff’s Office, WA, and regular trips to the Whistler bike park on my custom built Norco. I also spent a couple years in Argentina for my church, and work with my son’s Venture Scout group.
These days, if I’m not normalizing/denormalizing databases, looking at SQL DM numbers, or breaking down query plans; I’ll either be on the bike, playing killer bunnies with the kids, watching the Denver Broncos, following my favorite database bloggers online, or reading about WWII aviation. I often wonder if we’ll ever see the likes of Doolittle, Pappy Gunn, or the Flying Tigers again.
Russ Thomas - SQL Judo 
I attended your presentation in KC over the weekend and I’m having issues downloading the presentation. What application should I open it with?
Hey, thanks for attending. Those upload as zip files so you should be able to open it that way. If no luck here is a link to the same content in blog form. https://sqljudo.wordpress.com/2013/12/31/xquery-for-the-sql-server-dba/
Dear Russ,
Thank you for giving your time in preparation and presentation at the Denver Dev Days. Your experience as a DBA and coordination with “us developers” made a realistic and entertaining presentation. I call myself a full-stack developer and have implemented Entity Framework quite well but you session on “Entity Framework DB Performance Anti-Patterns” was outstanding. You really gave me some insight into making my code even better. I will be doing more SQL profiling in the future to make sure the linq I write actually only uses one query because I know I’m not perfect. Secondly, I will (almost) never again grab the entire list of available columns again.
Have a blessed week.
Kind Regards,
Brian Seim
Awesome, thanks for the feedback. If you watch my course on pluralsight I spend a lot of time on other ways to get insight into your code other than sql profiler. Google EF code intercepts for example, that’s a very elegant way.