Spock Does Final Convention Appearance

I saw this post about Leonard Nimoy doing his final convention appearance this week. He’s 80, I would guess doesn’t...

SQLRelay: The Third Leg

Feedback from the second leg of SQLRelay was very positive indeed. The attendees from my Maidenhead group were very impressed...

Two For One, SQLSaturday and MVP All In One Day.

Day Of Days
I just don’t know what to say, Saturday was just plain awesome. Easily one of the best days...

Two Great Talks on the State of Internet Security

Recently I've started following the public work of Mikko Hypponen (blog | twitter), the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure. I've known...

Attending the Summit? Learn Networking With Don Gabor!

My friend, author, and networking guru Don Gabor is back at the Summit for the third year in a row,...

Backup/Restore vs Detach & Attach

You want to move a database from one server to another. There are two options to do that.

1) Detach/Attach: To...

Basic Inner Joins – Basic Skill #4

This post is part of a series based on my presentation The Top Ten Skills You Need for SQL Server....

GET MVP DEEP DIVES VOL 2 50% OFF - TODAY ONLY!

Quick blog post to let you know that a special ONE-DAY TODAY ONLY deal by the publisher of the fantastic SQL Server...

Growing like a weed?

The other day, someone said to me ?You guys are growing like a weed? Now it was a competitor, so...

Index usage

Last week I blogged about how to get help identifying possible missing indexes by using some of the DMV’s provided...