On Saturday, 3/28, I presented Useful T-SQL Statements You May Not Be Aware Of at the 2009 Orlando .NET Code Camp. Despite some glitches with the projector I think the presentation went well. About 20 people came and there was a lot of good dialog, a few laughs, and… Read more

I manage a lot of replication publications\subscriptions and when I get a latency or agent failure alert it always bugs me that I have to go through 5 steps to launch Replication Monitor: launch SSMS, go to my server in object explorer, expand the treeview, right click on the Replication… Read more

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. I don't normally post off-topic things, but this particular subject hits home for me. No, not because the first computer language I learned in college was Ada 95. It's because I… Read more

I recently read a NYT article that highlighted how Google search data is being used to predict flu outbreaks at a regional level and in some cases a week to 10 days before they're reported by the CDC. It turns out that a good portion, if not all, of Google's… Read more