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...

AS400 Program from SSIS

If you need to call an AS 400 program from an SSIS package this can easily be accomplished with an...

Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 3 – Installing the OS

This part of the series will focus on installing the Windows Server 2012 OS on the virtual machine. In most...

Have you configured Database Mail to utilize multiple SMTP Accounts ?

Lets start discussing about this subject by closely looking at the term Redundancy.  What is redundancy all about ?
Wikipedia defines redundancy as “In engineering, redundancy is the...

How Your DBAs Are Granted VMware vCenter Access

A while back I wrote a blog post at the House of Brick technical blog that details talking points and...