The Public Role – a potential high risk security concern for DBAs

The public role is a special fixed-database role, which exists in every SQL Server database. The public role is different from all other database-level...

VMworld Presentation Voting – I Would Appreciate Your Votes

This year is the first year that I have submitted a session to VMware’sVMworld 2013, to be held in San...

Exploring Excel 2013 for BI Tip #6: GeoFlow–The Latest Excel Visualization

As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...

Fargo SQL Saturday (#SQLSat175) Schedule Is This Weekend

We are down to the last few days before first SQL Saturday in Fargo.  It’s been some work pulling it...

Industry Expert Interview

I don’t know if I would consider myself an industry expert, but hey, it says it on the Internet, so...

PowerSQL – Database Backup Report across all Servers – Centralized Approach

This topic provides and describes the quickest way to find when and what databases are being backed up recently.Backups are...

Review of The Way

The Way, starring Martin Sheen and directed by Emilio Estevez has been on my want to watch list for a...

Service Application Architecture

Hello Friends,

As discussed in my previous blog the new architecture of Service Application in 2010. Today I am here with...

snippet designate a certain time of the day in getdate()

Snippet to designate a certain time of the day to evaluate in the current day. If you need to limit a...

Speaking at the 2013 Carolina Code Camp

On Saturday, May 4, the Enterprise Developers Guild in Charlotte will hold their annual Carolina Code Camp. There's a number...