Webcast: What Are You Waiting For?

What was the number one question from today’s webcast on wait statistics?  Where can the slides and sample code be...

Creating cards in Trello via the REST API and parsing the returned JSON all in a SQL CLR

I recently blogged about how good I thought Trello was and shortly afterwards I found out that they did provide...

Distinct Count in Analysis Services

Business users are often interested in finding distinct counts in addition to other aggregations. They may want to know the...

Error 0xC0014062: Unable to complete login process due to delay in opening server connection

Sometimes on a heavy loaded server(many databases/connection). You may get an error log when your backup maintenance plan job gets...

Happy #Pi Day

Here’s wishing you a Happy Pi Day…

If my picture isn’t good enough, here’s a better representation of pi.

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
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Idera ACE Program

On March 9th a tweet went out by David Fargo announcing the 2012 Idera ACE’s and my twitter handle was...

Looking for a DBA? Looking for a New Job?

Ryan Recruiter meet Dave DBA…
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Ownership Chains in SQL Server

Someone asked the question recently about allowing a user to run a process,but not execute the individual pieces of the...

SQL Lunch Rescheduled

Due to a few scheduling conflicts the SQL Lunch scheduled for tomorrow as been rescheduled.  The event will be on March...