What is SSDT all about aka Why should I bother?

I often get asked the questions “What is SSDT” and I have wanted to have a single reference as to what it is as it is actually pretty big....

What is SSDT all about aka Why should I bother?

I often get asked the questions “What is SSDT” and I have wanted to have a single reference as to...

What is SSDT all about aka Why should I bother?

I often get asked the questions “What is SSDT” and I have wanted to have a single reference as to...

2015 a year in review

It’s a new year, so time to look back at the previous year, and forward to the next. I’ll tell...

2015 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney...

Advent of Code

If you want your skills to be sharp, you practice.  If you want to get yourself to actually do practice,...

Goodness-of-Fit Testing with SQL Server, part 3.2: D’Agostino’s K-Squared Test

By Steve Bolton
…………In the last edition of this amateur series of self-tutorials on goodness-of-fit testing with SQL Server, we discussed...

Monday Morning SQL Break – January 4, 2016

It’s Monday and time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me...

Query the Buffer Pool

SQL Server's buffer pool is a majority of your memory, but most DBAs can't tell you what's in it.

Technical Dogma

Humans are creatures of habit, and I suspect that engineering/technical types are even more so. We find something that works...