"What You Need To Know About Being a DBA and What You Need To Know That You Don’t Know Yet"

Last night was a big success for the first annual Baton Rouge User Groups Networking Night, an all-user-groups invited event...

SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2014

Since I have been involved with and eventually head of the Baton Rouge SQL Saturday planning committee each year since...

Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday 2014: SQL Server Best Practices for SharePoint Databases

Thanks for joining us at the first annual Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday!

Here is my presentation for the 1:15 presentation in...

Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday

I'm thrilled to be joining many of my colleagues at Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday this weekend at the Louisiana Technology...

Using a Filtered Index to Enforce Filtered Uniqueness

One of the advantages and uses of Filtered Indexes (introduced with SQL Server 2008) is to provide filtered uniqueness. Obviously...

Real heavyweights: Float vs Decimal, the Thrilla in Precision

This is a followup to a previous post where I likened SQL Server float datatype to Muhammad Ali. Specifically, I...

South Alabama Day of .NET Presentations Downloads

I have been running into longtime SQL Saturday friend Ryan Duclos at SQL Saturday events in Baton Rouge and Pensacola...

South Alabama Day of .NET 2014

About 200 miles east of Baton Rouge there lies a beachside town called Mobile, AL that will settle down long...

Challenges with Downgrading TFS 2010 from SQL Enterprise to SQL Standard Edition

I recently had the challenge of migrating an installation of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 from a shared SQL Server...

Data Architecture Virtual Group - Whiteboard Data Architecture Presentation

Thanks to all 130+ folks who joined, suffered my jokes and handwriting, and asked fantastic questions during my presentation to the...