Last year, I did a wrap up post of the year to see where I landed from where I wanted to be.  At the end of that post, I came up with a number of goals for the year.  Now’s the time to see how I did with those goals. Read more

Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading.  Since they all come out through out the day, I figured that I’d share a list of those that were most popular last week.

Last week’s top 10 “Reading” Links

1. On Being A Senior Engineer…

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Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have seen back to the forefront.  As with many technology blogs, just because a post is old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have value.

Some posts from… Read more

Last week, I presented on extended events at the Minnesota SQL Server user group (PASSMN).  The turnout was quite excellent and I expect at least a few people will be interested in the materials that were presented.

So… here they are Extended Events - Work Smarter, Not Harder -… Read more

Last week I mentioned that I had put up a few new versions of my index analysis script.  Turns out a few people downloaded it and found some issues.  I also have been playing with it some more and noticed some quirks that were a bit irritating to me, so… Read more

With the upcoming PASS Business Analytics Conference, it only makes sense for there to be a 24 Hours of PASS to go a long with it.  And have no fear, that is what is coming your way on January 30, 2013.

In a bit of a departure from previous… Read more

Happy holidays, seems this post missed coming out this morning as typically scheduled.  Thus, a late afternoon post on this Christmas Eve.

Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading.  Since they all come out through out the day, I figured that I’d… Read more

This may not be the coolest thing in the world, but it is quite useful.  From the annals of Books Online comes a poster with all of the data type conversions within SQL Server.  There are two versions – full color and grey scale.  And it can be… Read more

Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have seen back to the forefront.  As with many technology blogs, just because a post is old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have value.

Some posts from… Read more

A couple years back, I wrote a few blog posts about an indexing script that I use with clients from time to time.  While I provided some updates to it over the years, I haven’t pushed out anything new on it in quite some time.  Seems I got distracted with… Read more

Come on out to the Minnesota PASS SQL Server User Group (PASSMN) tomorrow and hear me speak about extended events.  It’ll be my first meeting since joining Pragmatic Works a couple months back and first presentation as a Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008.

The meeting… Read more

Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading.  Since they all come out through out the day, I figured that I’d share a list of those that were most popular last week.

Last week’s top 10 “Reading” Links

1. The 7-Step Method to Find…

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Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have seen back to the forefront.  As with many technology blogs, just because a post is old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have value.

Some posts from… Read more

It’s a bit past the first Monday in December, but better a week late than no checklist and update post at all.  The main purpose of this post is to serve as a reminder that, if you haven’t, you need to be checking your SQL Server environment on a monthly… Read more

Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading.  Since they all come out through out the day, I figured that I’d share a list of those that were most popular last week.

Last week’s top 10 “Reading” Links

1. The Best Secret Gmail Feature…

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Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may not have seen back to the forefront.  As with many technology blogs, just because a post is old, doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have value.

Some posts from… 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 syslockinfo returns information on lock requests.  Whether… Read more

 Since it’s been a while since I made any real changes to the design of this blog, it was time for a bit of a refresh.  It’s been a while and I wanted to clean things up some.

I’ve been toying with WordPress’s Featured Image option in blog posts for… 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 sysprocesses returns information on the processes that… Read more

Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading.  Since they all come out through out the day, I figured that I’d share a list of those that were most popular last week.

Last week’s top 10 “Reading” Links

1. An MCM exam, Rob? Really?…

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