How To Make Your DLL Into A NuGet Package for a Private NuGet Feed

This is my reinterpretation of the documentation on NuGet.org, modified to remove the public publishing steps, and to add local...

Philly Wrap SQLSaturday 200, HealthSQL and beyond..

SQLSaturday 200 is already looking further away in the rear view mirror, but it was a great event!
Joey D'Antoni, Sebastian...

SQL Query Result Order

Every time an SQL query is run without the ORDER BY clause, the sort order of the results returned is...

CHOOSE in SQL Server 2012

The CHOOSE command is new in the T-SQL as of SQL Server 2012. I hadn’t ever had the chance to...

My 2 cents on SQL Server 2014

Yesterday during the opening keynote of TechEd North America Microsoft released the first official details about the next version of...

Notes from 2013 Techno Security Conference Tuesday Keynote

There's enough from this morning's 2013 Techno Security and Forensics Investigation Conference to split into multiple blog posts. I'll focus this...

Security Questions: Accessing SQL Server Securables

As I mentioned in the introductory post, during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work’sTraining on the T’s, I...

SQL Saturday Baton Rouge Call for Speakers closes June 6!

SQL Saturday Baton Rouge Call for Speakers is open through June 6 (closes June 7 at midnight).

This year's pre-conference banquet...

SQL Server security webinar series is coming soon!

I've gotten in contact with most of the speakers who submitted SQL Server security talks for the PASS Summit. All...

Windows Azure pay per minute – Time is money !

One of the most exciting news which got announced yesterday was related to Windows Azure. When Scott Guthrie mentioned that billing...