Animated Graphics Depict The Fallen of World War II

In an amazing application of visualization techniques, this production is a depiction of the casualties and affects of war.  Starting...

006 – Personal Trainer - WaterOx Consulting

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New Course: Building Better SSIS Packages–Denver and Boston

Earlier this week, I confirmed two full-day seminars I’ll be delivering in conjunction with SQL Saturday events this fall. I’ve...

See You Next Weekend at SQL Saturday Houston!

Looking forward to speaking next weekend at SQL Saturday Houston 2015 on June 13!

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SQL Server – Capture Execution Plan of a Currently Running Query/Process SPID

DBAs most often face scenarios where they need to capture graphical execution plan of a query currently running on a live production instance because...

SSC Editorial: Should Salary Information Be Confidential?

I’m expecting Should Salary Information Be Confidential? to draw a wide range of comments. I’m curious to see if many will be...

High Performance T-SQL using Code Patterns

What exactly does this mean?  We’ve heard of “code patterns” in other programming languages, but what does it mean to...

SQL Server – How to Calculate Length and Size of any field in a SQL Table

Recently I came across a situation where queries are loading extremely slow from a table. After careful analysis we found...

SQLSaturday #408 Houston

I have been selected again to speak in Houston (Saturday, June 13th) for a SQLSaturday event and look forward to...

Sysmail_add_profileaccount_sp – SQL Server Database Mail Stored Procedure – Part 7

Hi friends, in last previous blogs we created database mail profile and database mail account. In this blog we will...