PASS, Evangelism, Goals, Dreams

The role of PASS in the community has evolved a lot over the past few years. Back in 2006/2007 PASS...

PowerShell – Export SQL Data to Excel with Powershell

SQL Server  Export  to Excel with Powershell is very useful for all sorts of activities – ETL and reporting are some...

Powershell in a Month Day 18–Variables

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

Reblog: February 21 to February 27

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

Upcoming Webinar - Introduction to Power BI

Come join me for this webinar on 3/13/2014 at 11:00 AM EST

Introduction to Power BI 
The future of Business Intelligence has...

Webinar Q&A: New BI Features in SharePoint 2013

I recently presented a free webinar for Pragmatic Works Free Training on the T’s about new Business Intelligence features in...

Why wait statistics are important and how you can start collecting them now!

Why wait statistics are important and how you can start collecting them now!
Wait statistics have always been a very important...

Challenges with Downgrading TFS 2010 from SQL Enterprise to SQL Standard Edition

I recently had the challenge of migrating an installation of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 from a shared SQL Server...

Data Architecture Virtual Group - Whiteboard Data Architecture Presentation

Thanks to all 130+ folks who joined, suffered my jokes and handwriting, and asked fantastic questions during my presentation to the...

Let’s Talk Query Tuning

I spend quite a bit of time writing about query tuning on this blog. I’ve written (re-written and am actively...