Have You Grabbed the SQL Sentry Plan Explorer Yet?
I won't say I despise SQL Server Management Studio's (SSMS) display for execution plans, but it's about at that level....
2010-10-27
1,249 reads
Brian Kelley
- Interests: Chess, Reading, Soccer (Football), Baseball, Animals, Theology
Postponing SQL Lunch Presentation Until Next Week
I woke up this morning about 3 AM with clogged sinuses and a fever. Great. The changing weather patterns that...
2010-10-27
633 reads
Why CONTROL SERVER Doesn't Cut It
With the new securables since SQL Server 2005, Microsoft has advised that we start moving away from the fixed server...
2010-10-26
4,544 reads
Vote for Me for a PASS SQLRally Precon on SQL Server Security
Unless James Bond is in the picture, security is usually not a sexy topic. However, we all lament the lack...
2010-10-25
2,059 reads
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of October 25, 2010
Monday
PASS Data Warehousing/BI Virtual Chapter - Applied MDX - Kevin Geoff
Tuesday
PASS Application Development Virtual Chapter - Refactoring SQL Applications - Jeremiah Peschka
Pragmatic Works - Pro...
2010-10-22
863 reads
Speaking for SQL Lunch on Wednesday
This coming Wednesday I'll be speaking for SQL Lunch on the topic of Auditing Database Permissions in SQL Server. The abstract for...
2010-10-22
517 reads
Give Back and Get Free Tools to Do So
SQL Server MVP Arnie Rowland (blog | twitter) has been running a project, Project Phoenix, to benefit unemployed/underemployed developers who are striving to do...
2010-10-17
570 reads
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of October 18, 2010
Tuesday
PASS - 24 Hours of PASS - LATAM: All Sessions in Spanish or Portuguese
Pragmatic Works - SQL Statement Tuning with Indexing Strategies - Kevin...
2010-10-15
788 reads
Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) - A Handy Tool for DBAs
Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) is a very common tool over on the Active Directory side. As the name...
2010-10-14
8,553 reads
Tools I Use to Scan for SQL Servers
I was having a Twitter conversation on this yesterday and naturally Aaron Nelson (blog | twitter) popped in with "PowerShell!" I like PowerShell,...
2010-10-13
15,577 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers