Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have had a chance to see.  Also a chance to bring back to the forefront posts that some may have seen but forgot about.

If you have… Read more

Welcome to the seventh of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99.  After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog |@ArnieRowland) Paying For Free post, I thought it might be worthwhile to do a little bit more to interview our attendees and others to the sponsors… Read more

Over the last few days, you may have noticed that there’s been a bit of talk about a SQL Server MCM Study Group.  In fact, Robert Davis (Blog | @SQLSoldier) tweeted about it the other day when he provided some sample corrupt databases.

You may be wondering, what… Read more

Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have had a chance to see.  Also a chance to bring back to the forefront posts that some may have seen but forgot about.

If you have… Read more

The first round of #meme15 has finished.  In total, there were eighteen people that participated.  If there were more, I missed them, just leave a comment here and I’ll update this post.  We even managed to nab a couple non-SQL people in the first go round.  Maybe next time we’ll… Read more

Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have had a chance to see.  Also a chance to bring back to the forefront posts that some may have seen but forgot about.

If you have… Read more

As I mentioned in a post last week, a new meme has been born.  This one is dedicated to discussing and sharing tip and tricks for blogging and using social media.  This can be from a personal or professional standpoint.  The intent is that through these posts by myself… Read more

Welcome to the fifth of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99.  After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland) Paying For Free post, I thought it might be worthwhile to do a little bit more to interview our attendees and others to the sponsors… Read more

Welcome to the fifth of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99.  After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland) Paying For Free post, I thought it might be worthwhile to do a little bit more to interview our attendees and others to the sponsors… Read more

Another month and it’s another T-SQL Tuesday.  This month we are being hosted by Allen White (Blog | @SQLRunr) and the topic is to Share Your Tricks.

One of my favorite things to do in SQL Server is to run queries against the plan cache.  Within… Read more

Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have had a chance to see.  Also a chance to bring back to the forefront posts that some may have seen but forgot about.

If you have… Read more

During a recent conversation with a few fellow bloggers, the conversation turned to how we each got started with blogging and social media platforms.  This led to a whole slew of questions:

• Why do other people blog?
• How do some bloggers keep up with publishing?
• What do you people use…

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Welcome to the third of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99.  After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland) Paying For Free post, I thought it might be worthwhile to do a little bit more to interview our attendees and others to the sponsors… Read more

The new year is just around the corner.  And before you know it, we’ll have an opportunity to start moving SQL Server 2012 into production.  While we anxiously await that day, it is a good idea to make sure that you are up on the latest T-SQL enhancements that are… Read more

Welcome to the third of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99.  After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland) Paying For Free post, I thought it might be worthwhile to do a little bit more to interview our attendees and others to the sponsors… Read more

This month for #MemeMonday, Thomas LaRock (Blog | @SQLRockstar) has assigned a topic with a holiday bend to it.  The question for today is “What gift we want from Microsoft to be left under the tree?”

Some Ideas

That’s a bit of a hard one.  For starters,… Read more

It’s the first Monday of the December, and it’s time to do a monthly checkup.  As previously mentioned, the premise of this post is to help DBAs maintain their environments by getting together a monthly checklist and running through it every month.

Now, if you were paying attention last… Read more

Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have had a chance to see.  Also a chance to bring back to the forefront posts that some may have seen but forgot about.

If you have… Read more

Welcome to the second of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99.  After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland) Paying For Free post, I thought it might be worthwhile to do a little bit more to interview our attendees and others to the sponsors… Read more

I’m probably going to have to put together a new SQL video, because I’ve been accepted to speak at SQL Saturday #104.  The e-mail came in last night and it appears I have two sessions for the event.  Enough about those for the moment, let’s talk about the upcoming… Read more