Staying true to the meaning of SQL Community with respect to local chapters and user groups, I wanted to bring you some links of upcoming events in the NY/NJ area and surrounding cities.

Coming up in the Big Apple, the New York City Microsoft SQL Server Users Group kick off its first… Read more

Everybody deserves a second chance in love, life, and in TSQL as well!  Now that it's the beginning of a New Year, 2012, it's the perfect time to start over again, and make up for the things that you missed, should the opportunity present itself.  That's why I am blogging… Read more

Yes, it's Monday again, and not only that - it's another edition of Meme Monday (the first of 2012), started by SQL MVP and Confio confabber, Thomas LaRock.  Inline with the start of a new year, January's meme topic of the month is "What do you want to… Read more

It was a day of warm weather, it was a day of cold weather.  A tale of two cities on opposite sides of the world – SQLSaturday comes rolling in with the first events of the New Year 2012, known as SQLSaturday #104 and #116, respectively.  Colorado… Read more

Holiday Greetings to all you DBA's and SQL Server professionals! This blog goes out to all of you who are on-call this week, or in the office, keeping SQL Servers safe from the grinches.  Hope you enjoy!

Twas the week after Christmas, when all through the office;
Not a client… Read more

Indeed the Holiday Season is traditionally a season of giving, and being charitable to those who are less fortunate.  Although giving back should be all year-round, the end of the year, coupled with the holiday spirit, (and maybe last minute tax-deductions :-) always rouses folks to be generous.  Nonetheless, giving back is… Read more

ISOWEEK 52 Weeks in the Year

Stardate 12:20:2011 Week 51 SSC.Com Web Blog, Planet Earth.  With only approximately two weeks left of the Year 2011, I believed we were rapidly approaching the 52^nd week, signifying the completed cycle of 52 weeks in a year.  At least that’s…

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SQL Server Magazine Reveals New Name for the Brand

Did you hear the news?  SQL Server Magazine has a new name - it's now called SQL Server Pro!  Read on to find out the details.

In the world of print, there are a shrinking number of specified SQL Server professional… Read more

SafePeak’s SQL Server Performance Contest – Winners

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So, it seems that I have been selected by the 2011 SQL Server Community Choice Awards, as among the Top 10 favorite SQL Server Bloggers, as #3 on the list! (You'll have to scroll to the bottom of the page.) Ask me, how you think I did that, and I'll… Read more

November 17, 2011 - Redmond, WA - Well, we knew it was coming, but the timing was a bit of a surprise for the Microsoft SQL MVP community, who usually has a jump start on the impending SQL Server releases.  Since it was announced recently at the PASS Summit 2011,… Read more

This blog entry is a short post-event follow-up for all our followers and attendees at the event! I will have a full blog and event summary in the coming days! 

Of course, I want to thank in short order, Andy Leonard, Brian Moran, Melissa Demsak (and her volunteers,… Read more

Happy, Wednesday folks!  We're 3-days away from SQLInspiration, and that is the event we've been reading about for some months now, called SQLInspireNYC! 

This is it!! We are finally approaching EVENTTIME, and this is your LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER!  If you get to the event registration page, you… Read more

I've been pretty busy polishing up my SQLInspire NYC talk, when I realized that it's another edition of Meme Monday. The topic is, What SQLFamily means to me. This neat blog idea was originally started by SQL MVP Thomas LaRock, aka @sqlrockstar, and today's topic is pretty cool and inspired Read more

Coming to the Capitol, tomorrow Saturday, November 5, 2011 is SQLSaturday#96 in Washington, D.C.!  This great event down in DC, has over 300 registered attendees, featuring awesome speakers, sponsors and swag.  Featuring prime SQL Speakers, SQLSat96 is going to be one to remember.

Among the supporting, sql sponsors, Pearl… Read more

Can't believe we're ONLY 10 days out from what's shaping up to be quite an extraordinary awesome event!  We've been talking about it some time now, and figure the T-Minus 10-day mark would be a good opportunity to give all you folks interested and/or registered attendees an event update, summarizing… Read more

You may have missed the big announcement yesterday on SQLServerCentral.com, that thanks to one of our great event sponsors, Red Gate , we were giving away (20) Twenty FREE registrations, for the lucky folks who grabbed the 100% discount code, and registered immediately.  It was a limited special offer, and… Read more

Now the PASS has well passed, folks are setting their sites on our upcoming NYC SQLPeople event called SQLInspireNYC .

SQLPeople is coming to New York on November 12, 2011! SQLInspire NYC is our second event, and we’ve lined up speakers set to inspire you to create and grow in your… Read more

Our friends at SafePeak has released a Major Update: Introducting SafePeak version 2.1 for SQL Server Performance Acceleration!

This unique caching solution offers the only Plug & Play application acceleration solution for cloud, hosted and business SQL server applications.  And now, there are even greater new improved features such as:

• Improvement of…

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Space - the Final Frontier!

Do not adjust your monitor- this blog is NOT a joke - rubbing your eyes will not help!

Now, Red Gate is an ingenious company, with ingeniously simple software tools, but when I first got the Friends-of-Red-Gate memo, I thought I definitely was dreaming!  Maybe… Read more