Announcing the fifth certification study session

The Denver SQL Server User Group is starting another round for the certification study group. Last year we ran three...

Culture Posters

I work with a client now that had a poster made of the top 10 values for the IT department....

Is my blog infringing on anything?

There was a recent uproar about a session delivered recently. A company thinks that the session infringed on their intellectual...

JOIN IN SQL FAQ

1) What types of JOINS exist?
Inner Joins
Outer Joins (LEFT JOIN, LEFT OUTER JOIN, RIGHT JOIN, RIGHT OUTER JOIN, FULL...

Microsoft and HP’s Database Consolidation Appliance

Microsoft and HP have announced another appliance, called the Database Consolidation Appliance (see my blog about the other two appliances). ...

More Denali Execution Plan Warning Goodies

In my last blog, I showed how the execution plan in denali has been enhanced by 2 new warnings ,conversion...

Moving to House of Brick

Starting Halloween Monday I will be a Technical Consultant for House of Brick Technologies.

To everyone out there saying "Didn't you...

Next PASS Summit is Nov 6-9, 2012

After enjoying the entirely reasonable weather in Seattle in October this year we’ll return to our more traditional time frame...

No longer just an admin but a DB Astronaut : A poem.

Today we have a guest post from Phil Factor as Brad is on vacation.
‘ I used to fettle databases as...

October 2011 SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries

Since Microsoft released the official name for “SQL Server Code Named Denali” last week at the PASS 2011 Summit, it...