I have recently begun to contemplate pursuing the MCSA Certification.  I have been working with SQL Server for almost 20 years and have never considered getting a certification before now.  I have met so many people through the years who have the certifications and were quite frankly “dumb as a… Read more

“The Long and Winding Road” is one of my favorite Beatles songs, it reminds me of my dad, he was a huge Beatles fan.  My dad passed away almost five years ago, but I still miss him like it was yesterday and I still remember the advice he gave me… Read more

I presented on this topic at the TriadSQL User’s Group meeting on 3/26/13.  I promised I would post my code/solutions, so here it is.  For those that were not able to attend the meeting, here is a brief description of what I am posting.

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What a whirlwind last week was.  There were so many sessions to attend and only one of me.  I needed to clone myself a couple of times over in order to catch all the sessions that I wanted to see.  Unfortunately, that technology is nowhere near ready, so I had… Read more

I have just recently changed employers and in doing so, I’ve changed my role from Data Architect to DBA/BI Developer.  I had been doing heads down development work for the last 4 plus years and not a lot of admin work.  Given that, I missed out on something that I… Read more

Did you know that it’s election season for PASS?  Did you know that you can pose questions to the potential candidates via the Election Forums?  The NomCom is busy interviewing candidates and is offering you the opportunity to ask the candidates question, via the NomCom.  Do you have a… Read more

I’m putting my money where my mouth is, with respect to my last blog post.  I am officially a mentor with The Mentoring Experiment.   I am so honored to have been selected as a mentor and am so excited to begin.  I’ll let you know how it turns out… Read more

My company has recently put forth an effort to hire fresh college graduates and interns.  I think this is a great thing.  A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, I was a fresh graduate, with no real world experience and my first employer took a big chance… Read more

 So, we’ve had this issue lately at work with our TFS build/deploys causing a significant amount of contention and only partially succeeding. 

A little about our environment: 

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition, 64-bit.
• Visual Studio 2010
• Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Using Transactional Replication
• Using partial projects for replicated objects

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So there seems to be some confusion as to what the NomCom’s job is.  I have to admit I was confused about its job at one time as well.  It took a couple of hours of sifting through blog posts, forums and documentation on the PASS site to finally figure… Read more

I submitted my application for the NomCom last week and the polls opened up yesterday.  I’ve seen an amazing amount of support not only from friends and co-workers, but also members of the community that I’ve never met.  That is what PASS is all about.  A community that encourages and… Read more

I started out as a software developer back in 1996 in Denver, CO, doing Client/Server development in PowerBuilder.  The internet was just starting to blossom and my knowledge base was non-existent.  Over the past 16 years I’ve seen how the IT world has changed and grown, which in turn has… Read more