Reblog: April 19 to April 25

Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...

5 SQL Server White Papers Every DBA Should Read

There are countless sources for information on SQL Server available today.  There are books, webcasts, conferences, and blogs.  With all...

Adding Data to Filestream with T-SQL

I’ve written on how to enable Filestream and how to add a filegroup, but I haven’t touched the Filestream impact...

Consultants – Why pay more?

As an independent consultant who has a higher bill rate than average, I would hope it is obvious to clients that the...

Database Administration KPIs – 1/2

 
As a DBA, we may all have this question: How should my work be evaluated objectively? or in another way,...

Database Administration KPIs – 1/2

 
As a DBA, we may all have this question: How should my work be evaluated objectively? or in another way,...

Force installation of 64-bit ACE OLE DB provider

Anyone working with SSIS and Excel probably had the following issue: you are creating an SSIS package using an Excel...

SQL Lunch – GeoFlow: 3D Geospatial Visualization

Join me next month to learn about a new Geospatial visualization feature of Excel 2013 on the SQL Lunch.

Lunch Details

#75-GeoFlow:...

SQL PASS Performance Virtual Chapter Presentation

Today I was fortunate enough to be able to give a new presentation to the SQL PASSPerformance Virtual Chapter called...

SQLIntersection conference wrapup

Two weeks ago was a busy one. I helped coordinate and spoke at our second SQL Saturday Omaha on April...