Changing The Stars

If you’ve never seen the movie “A Knights Tale” I recommend that you do.  In the movie, the character William...

Contained Databases

Today's post is in regards a feature that was released with SQL Server 2012, it hasn't gotten the attention or...

DB Mail error “File attachment or query results size exceeds allowable value of 1000000 bytes”

Issue : One email report is working fine from long time but suddenly it failed today with below error.
Error :
Msg 22051,...

Gimmicks that work: XE Profiler in SQL Server Management Studio

I have a favourite new feature of SQL Server Management Studio 17.3 (SSMS), and that’s XE Profiler, which allows you to...

New Pluralsight Course – SQL Server on Linux Administration Fundamentals

New Pluralsight Course – SQL Server on Linux Administration Fundamentals
My new course “SQL Server on Linux Administration Fundamentals” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the...

New Pluralsight Course – SQL Server on Linux Administration Fundamentals

New Pluralsight Course – SQL Server on Linux Administration Fundamentals
My new course “SQL Server on Linux Administration Fundamentals” in now available on Pluralsight here!...

PASS Summit 2017 - Live and in Living Color!

UPDATE - the feed and schedule are live at http://www.pass.org/summit/2017/PASStv.aspx

http://rochistory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/NBC-logo.pngNot in Seattle for some reason this week?  Like maybe you stayed home...

PASS Summit 2017 Day 1

It’s the first full day of the 2017 PASS Summit. As I write this, I am somewhere over the panhandle...

SQL PASS Summit 2017: Day 1 Keynote Thoughts and Memories

Whee! It’s the first day of the main SQL PASS Summit conference and I made it to the keynote early for the first time ever. The hype says we’re going...

SQL Server Haunt 2017

The undead of Halloween are now upon us. Among the hordes of data zombies roaming the streets in lab-coats and fishnet stockings, few of us are still scrambling to...