Reblog: April 25 to May 1

Photo credit – Jenn and Tony Bot
Sometimes old stuff is just as cool as new stuff. Over the past few years,...

Sabbatical Decisions

My employer, Red Gate Software, offers a sabbatical to their employees, and this year I’m taking mine. I’ll be gone from...

Speaker of the Month, May 2014

Whoa! Another month gone by already? I guess I better pick a speaker of the month then. I went to...

Speaking at #SQLSat307 in Iowa City!

I just received confirmation I will be speaking at SQL Saturday 307 in Iowa City on June 7th!

 I will be...

Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 4

I spent some more time last night thinking about the event and marketing it. Biased I am, but I think...

Continuous Delivery Visualization

A good one, one of the better diagrams I’ve seen.

From http://markosrendell.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/practical-benefits-of-continuous-delivery/
Now if we can get tooling and processes to make...

Real heavyweights: Float vs Decimal, the Thrilla in Precision

This is a followup to a previous post where I likened SQL Server float datatype to Muhammad Ali. Specifically, I...

SQL – List All Tables, Space Usage Info & Other Details

One of the OP requested in the forum to find all table details of any database. The details which includes Number...

SQL – List All Tables, Space Usage Info & Other Details

One of the OP requested in the forum to find all table details of any database. The details which includes Number...

Stupid T-SQL Tricks – Part 1: Logarithms

Not just for math geeks, logarithms and their inverse functions (the exponentials) can have useful and often unexpected capabilities in...