SQLPASS Day 2: Keynote Live Blog

Them's some SEXY DBAs...
I’m live blogging the PASS keynote…it’s 8:44 local time.
Here’s the PASS website description of the day 2 keynote...

SQLPASS Day 2: WIT Luncheon Live Blog

12:42pm local time at the live streamed Women in Technology luncheon…let’s blog. I’ll italicize my comments, to differentiate betwee that...

SQLPASS Day 1: Keynote Live Blog

Day 1 Keynote Jumps the Shark with Tina Turner Impersonator

I’m live blogging the PASS keynote…it’s 8:38 local time.
You wouldn’t guess...

MERGE Statement Corrected, or, How to Eat Crow in Public

Better pull out the excuse-o-meter
I have no excuse, none whatsoever.
In my T-SQL Brush-Up presentation to the North Texas SQL Server...

Attend the PASS Summit From Home

You there, sitting in your cube and fuming at all the PASS Summit talk: you couldn’t talk your company into...

A Little SSMS Wish

IN SQL Server 2000, we didn’t have the fancy-schmancy Management Studio…we had Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer, and we liked em,...

SQL Saturday #56 BI Edition Wrap-up

On Saturday I (unexpectedly) presented at Dallas’ first Business Intelligence-focused SQL Saturday at the Microsoft campus in  Irving. I wasn’t on...

SQL Saturday #56 – The 24 hour Challenge

SQL Saturday #56, Dallas BI edition, is tomorrow. Last night before the NTSSUG meeting, we had an unusually high number of...

Ground Zero Database Design: Part 2

Last week I wrote Ground Zero Database Design, thinking that was a good enough bare-bones intro (with recommended reading!) that...

SQLKilt / WIT Shirts

This shirt was specifically requested by an online friend who shall remain nameless (his name rhymes with “Duck Hoodie”).  Another...