PASS Summit - November 2012

PASS Summit is the world's largest and most intensive technical training conference for Microsoft SQL Server community for the SQL...

PASS Virtual Chapter Events - July 2012

 
Date:  Thursday, July 10

Time:  11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Central Time
Virtual Chapter:  DBA Fundamentals

Event URL:  http://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join (Meeting ID TW8M35, Entry Code...

The Exceptional DBA Awards – 2012

Who will be the Exceptional DBA of 2012? I’ll be judging.
It’s hard to believe that it’s time for the Exceptional...

Bug? Can’t Pass TVP to SQL Function Twice

I run into a bug recently with SQL Server 2012. I believe this exists in SQL Server 2008 as well....

Contracting – Your best clients are your current clients…

and your old clients too.
Before I started my contracting business five years ago I realised the importance of selling and...

Corrupt Model database

An interesting case arose at work the other day. SAN issues had caused SQL Server to shutdown and it was...

Get Your Ass to PASS!

This year there are to be no excuses, and I mean it.
You know what I’m talking about. There’s always some...

My journey finally ends at the SQLPASS 2012 Summit

Yesterday SQLPASS revealed the sessions that were selected for the upcoming SQLPASS
summit in Seattle from November 6 – 9. I'm very...

SQL Server 2012 CU2 – Have a little fun (#AppliedSQL)

SQL Server 2012 Cumulative Update (CU) 2 is out! If you’re like Me-from-10-years-ago, you couldn’t care less!
But there are actually...

SQLBits X videos online

All the videos for this popular conference are online or will be soon (69 of them). Take a look at the...