A New Stressor

I tend to be amused when I run into something that causes me stress because I like to think – foolishly...

And I wonder, where that column is?

I wouldn't have decided to write this post if I didn't see my boss at one of my previous jobs...

Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 3

Not to short change fund raising, but the toughest goal to meet for this year is registration/attendance if we’re going...

Collation: Temporary objects and variables: Demonstration

I had a recent run in with collation problems and it got me started reading about them. As I read...

DBA Myths: TRUNCATE TABLE deletes all the rows of a table instantly.

Most DBAs and developers I’ve talked to over the years have felt that TRUNCATE TABLE is an instant DELETE. However...

Decks & Demos Live

Hello Dear Reader!  Just a quick update.  I've been traveling a lot and I'm behind in posting some Decks & Demos....

ERROR OPENING SSRS REPORT MANAGER IN INTERNET EXPLORER

Writing this post only for internet explorer as not aware of the settings of other browsers such as chrome/mozilla.

To be...

Modern Data Warehousing Presentation

I will be presenting the session “Modern Data Warehousing” on Saturday at the PASS SQLSaturday Business Analytics edition in Dallas...

Speaking at Connections

I just got my acceptance to the DevConnections, SQLConnections in September for two sessions:
Continuous Integration for DatabasesMaintaining High Performance When...

SQL #53 – Keyboard shortcut Alt + F1 works now in SSMS 2012

Keyboard shortcut Alt + F1 works now
SSMS has a rich set of keyboard shortcuts that works by default. But in SSMS...