My Visual Studio crashed and I didn't know why!

Recently I had to develop a simple ETL task with the help of SSIS to transfer an Excel data file...

PowerShell – Memory Details GUI Tool

This Powershell Memory GUI tool is used to fetch memory information from a computer. In the screen that follows, enter...

Powershell in a Month Day 14 – WMI

This is part of my Powershell Challenge, to learn more about PowerShell (PoSh) using the Learn Windows Powershell 3 in...

Reblog: January 24 to January 30

Photo credit – Husso
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just...

See Consolidated Data About SQLSaturday (Events, Sponsors, And Speakers)

Yesterday Kendal Van Dyke posted a file to Skydrive with consolidated information from all the events published so far. He...

SQL Prompt – new features in version 6.x

I’ve been using SQL Prompt for years. In September 2013, version 6 was released (quickly followed by 6.1 in late...

2013 with You & SQL Server

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney...

Database Project Versioning

SSDT 2010, 2012 with TFS integration brought about a couple of different options when you are looking to version your...

Final Day for Power BI Voting, Can I Have Your?

Today is the final day for the Power BI Contest voting and I could use your help to move on...

It May Be Necessary Re-enable Service Broker After Baremetal Restore

After the restore of a database, or perhaps a bare-metal restore of a Windows server running SQL Server, unique IDs...