Why is -fill in the feature- Enterprise-Only?

Steve Jones (Blog/@Way0utWest) recently wrote a great blog post proposing that Microsoft should go from having edition-only features (most of...

Best PASS Summit Ever (so far)

I have to admit that the 2011 PASS Summit was such an amazing experience and there was so much to...

Denver SQL Server User’s Group Meeting on October 20, 2011

The Denver SQL Server User’s Group will be having their monthly meeting tonight at the Microsoft office in the Denver...

Finding orphaned database users

Database users can become orphaned for a few reasons. For example, a database restore to another instance or deleting the...

Jeremy Huppatz presents Row Versioned Data Warehouse

Subject: Row Versioned Data WarehousesLevel: 200-300 (Intermediate)

Start Time: Thursday, December 15th, 2011 8:00 PM US Central Time
Presenter: Jeremy Huppatz...

PASS Board Of Elections: Adam Jorgensen

Be Part Of The Solution, Not The Problem
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Now that BoD season is in full swing and I’m not running for...

Penance

Buck Woody wrote a fantastic post this morning for speakers to think about. All too often I have seen some...

Setting up SSIS Auditing Part 2

Auditing in SSIS can be a real headache. In this two part series blog I am going to try to...

SolidQ Announces BI Center of Excellence

Carl Rabeler, SharePoint and SQL BI Expert Formerly With Microsoft SQLCAT, Rejoins SolidQ as Director of the Business Intelligence Center...

sp_configure OR sys.configurations? and do you back these up?

G’day,
I was checking out some of our configuration options today using sys.configurations and I started to wonder how many people...