Extending the Publisher to the Cloud

SQL Azure Data Sync
This weekend I decided to setup a SQL Azure sync group to synchronize a SQL Azure database...

Twitter, John, Building a Blog and #MEME15

I saw an interesting post this morning care of the micro-blogging/social networking site twitter that really got me thinking about...

Including Missing Values in Data Ranges Without a Lookup Table

Including Missing Values in Data Ranges Without a Lookup Table
Including Missing Data

One of the ways that I learn new things...

PASS: Time to Change the By-Laws

Yesterday Bill Graziano announced the appointment of two Directors (Kendal Van Dyke and James Rowland-Jones) to fill vacancies on the...

Using TDD To Create A Working Application In C# : Part 2

Last FM Wrapper
You know that web project we created? You can completely forget about that for now as this is...

Answer the Question Asked

“Bill, are you running SQL R2 on your desktop?”
This seems like a simple enough question, yet I usually cannot get...

Ethics and Power

Power corrupts.
A famous quote, and it’s one of the the most true quotes I’ve seen in my life. When someone...

File Group Backups - Intro

What is File Group backup?

Backing up a portion of a database, say a File Group is termed as Filegroup...

Friday SQL Nugget #1

Gee thanks Jes (blog|twitter). Just what I wanted, a little extra work on a Friday afternoon. I used to like...

HP DL980…now this is a server!

I have been fortunate the past few months to be working on a HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server.  This is...