Database Certificates and the X.509 Standard

 Hello Dear Reader, I came across an interesting discovery about a year ago and realized I’d never written about it. ...

Drive Size - PowerShell Script

The below script is used to find the disk size for a set of servers,

## Script to Find List of...

First Try at a Wooden Hand Plane

I’ve been reading about wooden hand planes lately (as opposed to hand planes made of metal that plane wood) and...

Fix: Crystal Reports Shows Red X Across Entire Page When Report Run Inside Visual Studio

I was googling (with Bing AND Google) like crazy for a solution to this, but didn't find one from any...

Modify Host File on Windows 7

Modifying the Windows host file can be a great way to ensure that you don’t accidentally modify production while doing...

Speaking at PASS Summit 2012

It’s Not A Repeat
Speaking at the PASS Summit last year was one of the highlights of my career. I had...

Speaking Tomorrow for Professional Development VC

As I blogged about previously, tomorrow (Wednesday) I will be speaking for the PASS Professional Development virtual chapter. My talk will...

Travel Plans for PASS-Done!

I’m flying in on Sunday again this year, arriving in time for lunch, and looking forward to the luxury of...

Troubleshooting Performance - Top CPU Queries

Today I came accross white paper "Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server" by Sunil Agarwal, Boris Baryshnikov, Tom Davidson, Keith...

T-SQL Tuesday #33 – Trick Shot

It’s T-SQL Tuesday time again, and this is my post for #33. The host is Mike Fal and his topic...