How to easily automate SQL Code Guard.

It may happenthatyou have a needto check thescripts thatyou have on yourdisk.  For example, it may be part of yourbuildprocess.So how...

I’m A Candidate For the PASS 2014 Nominating Committee

I submitted my application for the NomCom on May 21 and after the review process we’re now in “campaign week”....

Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #86

It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up.  If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...

PASS 2014 Nomination Committee

I’m officially on the slate and running for the PASS 2014 Nomination Committee!

Why should you vote for Ryan?
I love the PASS...

Service Packs coming for SQL Server 2008/2008 R2

I’m not prophetic, I promise. However, some good news on the service pack front with regards to SQL Server 2008...

SQL Saturday 294 Philadelphia, Nostalgic!

Less than a week left and I’m extremely excited about SQL Saturday in Philly on June 7th, 2014 and the...

SQL Server Quickie #14 – The Tipping Point

(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...

What is the difference between Money and Decimal(19,4)

One of my co-workers and I were discussing the difference between the data type MONEY and the data type DECIMAL(19,4)....

A quicker way to know when DBCC CHECKDB last ran in your database.

Problem : Surely you have scheduled jobs to run DBCC CHECKDB across your SQL Servers to check database integrity. But sometimes...

Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 16

As you can see my third attempt on Fiverr didn’t work out great. I asked for something bold/high contrast and...