What Do You Mean There is No Current Database Backup?!?

Yet another late night/early morning tale...

The LOG backups for multiple databases on a server failed overnight (not all databases, but...

Ending My Loop in PowerShell Early

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as#SQLNewBloggers.
I...

Goodness-of-Fit Testing with SQL Server, part 3.1: Skewness, Kurtosis and the Jarque-Bera Test

By Steve Bolton
…………In the last installment of this series of amateur self-tutorials on using SQL Server to identify probability distributions,...

Idera #SQLChat with John Morehouse

Please join Idera tomorrow for a #SQLChat on Twitter. The December #SQLChat will take place Tuesday, December 9 at 11...

SQL Server 2005 End of Support and Business Intelligence

How does the official end of support for SQL Server 2005 affect companies using Reporting Services, Analysis Services and other...

SQLSatDC - Down in DC - 12/5

Saturday, December 5, 2015: SQLSaturday#470 is on track to be an extraordinary event in DC this Saturday, with a fantastic...

Webinar – Lowering SQL Server Licensing Costs

On Tuesday, December 15th, Bala Narasimhan and I are presenting a webinar where we will walk through real-world examples that...

Why I Joined Microsoft

If you follow me in social media, you may have seen my announcement that I’ve joined Microsoft. Late in October...

Announcing SQL Server Management Studio - November 2015 Release

For Summary On Improvements In the Latest Release
Please go through the below link.

Summary On Improvements In SSMS Nov 2015

To Download...

Changing case of T-SQL Keywords

Update new download location is https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/435e7238-0e64-4667-8980-5...
Bert likes his T-SQL keywords in UPPERCASE, Ernie likes his in lowercase which causes some...