Summit 2012 Community Zone

 
 
 
 
Will you be at Summit 2012?
I will be. I will even be pretty easy to find on multiple occasions.  If...

Countdown to PASS Summit 2012 – 5 to Go – Communities in the Community

Just 5 days to Summit kick off. Today’s discussion is about communities within the community. That’s right. There is more...

Debugging Isn’t an Obvious or Easy Skill

I tend to take it for granted and I imagine most of you do as well, but not everyone is...

Everybody Needs to Know About Recovery

My friend and SQL Server professional Tim Radney (blog/@tradney) has written a new entry in the Joes2Pros series:

You can get...

Jumping from SSIS 2008 to SSIS 2012

Being a long-time SSIS 2008 developer, I have been working with SSIS 2012 for the past few months, and I...

Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysindexes

This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...

PASS Summit 2012–My Schedule

Using SSIS 2012 for Data Warehouse ETL
I have been fortunate to be selected this year to speak at the PASS...

SQL Backup and Recovery

I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to write a book for Joes2Pros on a topic that is very...

SQLIO Analyzer now has test timestamps

Yesterday I finally got around to adding a much needed improvement to my SQLIO Analyzer tool. You now get a...

SSIS and Oracle All Your Non-options

Why do some things have to be so hard?
I have been asking myself that question for the better part of...