It’s close to that time of year again.  It’s time for a SQL Saturday in Minnesota and this… it isn’t happening on a Friday.  Yes, this year PASSMN has opted to instead have the SQL Saturday on a Saturday.  If you’ve followed this event in Minnesota for the past few… Read more

This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective dynamic management objects.  You can find a list of all of the deprecated views in the introduction post.

The compatibility view sysdepends returns rows dependency information for objects… Read more

It’s been a year already and it’s time to head back to Kalamazoo for their SQL Saturday.  We’re heading back to the same location on September 22 for another day of free training on SQL Server.  Not only is the training free but it is also an opportunity to… Read more

The August round of #meme15 finished up last week with a good number of people participating.  The aim of the posts this month was to give people an opportunity to think about their job and consider what it is that they like about it.  It’s easy at times to complain… Read more

A while back, Kevin Conan (Blog | @ConanTheCDN) emailed me about this months #meme15 topic.  He thought it would be good to have people think about their jobs a little and consider that the grass may be greener on this side of the fence.  Which leads to… Read more

I haven’t done a #meme15 blog assignment in a while and figured I would pop one off as the weekend starts.  This month’s topic comes to me from Kevin  Conan (Blog | @ConanTheCDN).  The idea of these posts is to give bloggers something in common to write about… Read more

Summer is beginning to wrap up for those of us in the northern hemisphere and were finally to August.  Maybe the use of “finally” is a little much.  If you are like me, you likely feel like we got to August too soon.  It seems the older I get the… Read more