Log shipping setup problem

Last week, our log shipping setup had a problem, so I spent some time to dig into the log shipping....

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate – SQL Server 2008 Core / Windows Server® 2008

Yesterday, I received two mails from the Microsoft Certification Program Team about two new certification earned:
1. Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate...

PASS Data Arch VC presents Mike Fal: Eating the Elephant: SQL Server Table Partitioning

Thursday’s (May 17th, 2012) PASS Data Architecture Virtual Chapter has Mike demonstrating some cool Table Partitioning scripts which I was...

Professional Productivity Books

Just as with the "soft skills" books, in my professional development presentation, I list the professional productivity books that I have found most helpful in my...

SQL Injection Tools

I wouldn’t recommend you use any of the tools in this article for attacking anyone, but they could help you...

SQL Server 2012: Certification Upgrade Info

As a follow-up to my SQL Server 2012: New Certification Info, Microsoft Learning has announced the certification tracks for the SQL Server...

sys.sql_modules vs. INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Routines

Consider the following two queries meant to search for a keyword in SQL programmability objects.
select s.name +'.' + o.name, o.type_desc, m.definition

from sys.sql_modules...

Tribal knowledge is no knowledge

I've run across several incidents in the last couple of months regarding something that is typically called "tribal knowledge." This is...

Urgent BIOS Update for Dell PowerEdge R810, R910 and M910 Servers

If you have an 11th generation Dell PowerEdge R810 , PowerEdge R910 server, or a PowerEdge M910 blade server, there is...

Visualize Wait stats with Microsoft Excel

In our blog post last week: Instance Wide Wait Stats we promised to show You how to visualize the collected...