The Three A’s: Auditing

Authentication and Authorization, the first two of the three A’s of security, control who gets access to what. However, at...

Be Wary of Date Formatting in T-SQL

Today’s public service announcement is a reminder to be wary of date formatting in SQL Server. On a recent mailing...

I’m Speaking! Evansville Technology Group

SQL Server user group is a backbone of the SQL Server community.  I currently help run the Louisville SQL Server...

I’m Speaking! Evansville Technology Group

SQL Server user group is a backbone of the SQL Server community.  I currently help run the Louisville SQL Server...

LocalDB DSC Script

Hello!
So, there are many different product SKUs of SQL Server available, and generally when developing it’s probably best to use...

Row-count Estimates when there are no Statistics

I was discussing Cardinality Estimation with a colleague recently and the question came up, what cardinality does SQL Server use...

SSRS Report Deployment Made Easy – 700 times Faster

Back in October 2016, Microsoft started a new GitHub repository – ReportingServicesTools – an open source PowerShell module to manage SQL Server...

Update SSMS With PS1

With how many updates are coming out I threw together a script to parse the latest version from the webpage,...

Don’t Forget the Keys

I was recently given the nod to upgrade my monitoring server from SQL Server 2012 (SP 3) to SQL Server...

My Most Embarrassing SQL Moment

T-SQL Tuesday #92: Lessons Learned the Hard Way

This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday prompt. T-SQL Tuesday was created by Adam Machanic and is a way for...