How to get certified (as MCP)

This year I did lot of conference sessions, Azure workshops and MOCs. When doing introduction, I have one PowerPoint slide about my competencies and my MS certificates (MCP) are shown here. And I have a lot of those… On breaks or after sessions, I get lot of question about how to get certified, what to use…

Microsoft + OpenSource

Last few days a lot of people shared link Announcing SQL Server on Linux . And this might be big WOW and surprise for a lot of people but is it really such a surprise? Well yes, if you look at Microsoft few years back while under CEO Steve Ballmer. But since Satya Nadella took over, Microsoft…