I have no intentions of kicking the bucket – ever.  I have no intentions of getting old either.  We’ll see how all of that works out.

Bob Pusateri (Blog | Twitter) posted his bucket list this morning and it seemed like an interesting topic for an early day… Read more

Finally I am getting around to posting my Quarterly Goal review.  Last quarter’s review can be found here.

Start a Blog

This has been covered pretty well.

Implement a BI Solution

I have made no further progress on this.  Despite that, I have been converting several dts packages into… Read more

In case you hadn’t heard SQLSaturday #54 was Oct 23 in Salt Lake City.  It was a dreary opening to the Deer hunt, and a good morning to be inside to learn about SQL Server.  I was there to make my first presentation at a larger scale event (than a… Read more

Time for the ghouls and goblins to come out of the woodwork once again for another tale of deception and tyranny.  OK maybe not tyranny but definitely a haunting tale is to be told this month while trick-or-treaters plan their routes and mend their costumes.  We have SQueeLing experts suiting… Read more

Holy Cow, another month has flown by without much of  a hint.   We now have upon us another TSQL Tuesday.  If you hadn’t heard or haven’t seen the twitter announcement, you can find it to be hosted by Sankar Reddy (Blog).  The theme this month is all about… Read more

This has been on my radar now for a little over a week.  I ran across a  request in the forums to assist with permissions and decided to test some things.  The gist of the request was to disallow a user from inserting into a table and still have execute… Read more

It is amazing how fast time moves the older (and slower) we as humans get.  Looking back on time, it doesn’t seem to have been that long since I got married.  Today marks the 15th anniversary of that occasion.  It has been a good fifteen years and both of us… Read more

After having read the Percy Jackson series of books, I wanted to read a few more books by Rick Riordan.  I happened across this book one day while browsing a local store.  It didn’t take much thought after seeing the cover, title and author (sometimes the cover art is important… Read more

Wow, I have really been kinda slow in the blog department for a couple of weeks now.  I have a few things in queue that i will be letting out within the next week.

I got notice today that I have a presentation on the slate for SQL Saturday #54… Read more