SQLServer 2008 R2 SP3 released, Now its testing and deployment time!

As promised Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3 last Friday, and now this is your opportunity to test and...

What PASS is to me #sqlpass

I found out about the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) in 2008 when I attended my first PASS Community Summit “SQL...

PASS got it right

This morning I received an email (really 3 emails) about an extension for voting for the Board of Directors giving...

PASS Votes… A little bit more #passvotes

I am putting up an abnormal Saturday morning blog post in support of the actions taken by the PASS Board...

Development, Leadership, Age

While I was at the VMWare HQ getting some amazing training a few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to...

Friday Followup For September 26, 2014

It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...

PASS Rocks SQL Saturday

I had another piece that looked at some issues with PASS slated for today, but it’s been a tough morning....

People Helping People – Volunteers

Continuing on with things that PASS does well, since I want to be balanced, I wanted to talk about volunteers....

Reblog: September 19 to September 25

Photo credit – Mike Lynch
A good cure to a creepy doll is a good old post that is still useful. In...

Re-Indexing - The quest of ultimate automation