Hooks

Building hooks from your software into enterprise monitoring systems is prudent, and might save you from a few late night phone calls.

Hypervisor

Reverse Engineering Disasters

Preparing a disaster recovery plan means more than just trying to prevent a few specific disasters. It means turning around the way you view the world.

Playing with Pivot

I’ve been working on some skills, trying to grow some of my T-SQL, and started to mess with the PIVOT...

Testing is Your Best Investment

One of the things that can make a big difference in how well your software performs is testing.

The Flash Database

What is the impact of flash storage on databases? There are quite a few, but this week Steve Jones asks if SQL Server should do more to take advantage of them.

PIVOT

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

A few friends challenged me yesterday, including Grant Fritchey and Aaron Bertrand. Last night, when I got to the Denver...

Biml

Updating tsqlt

I was looking to write a new test with the tsqlt framework recently. I wanted to isolate a stored procedure’s...