When was the Last Time You Removed an Index Because it was Never Used?

Indexes can be great for boosting the performance of a query, but if an index is never used, it can...

Call for Speakers for the SQL Track at the Tallahassee Code Camp

The annual Code Camp is coming up on October 1st in Tallahassee and our local SQL group is trying to...

Denali & CTP 3

I have Denali installed on a virtual machine on my laptop and I’m working through evaluating it. Actually, I’m working...

Excel Services in SharePoint 2010 Webinar Recording Is Up

First of all if you came out to my webinar this morning let me say a huge thank you!  I...

See the New Logo and Graphics for SQLSaturday

Officially launched today, it’s been a project that took a while to bubble to the top, but we’ve done an...

SQL MCM Training – Day 2

Today's day was Jonathan Kehayias days, and it was pretty impressive. Jonathan covered
the following 3 modules, and he can speak...

SQL Server “Denali”: Distributed Replay

Replaying multiple threads of a captured trace in SQL Profiler is difficult, and you are limited to replaying the workload from...

T-SQL Tuesday #21 – Bringing Ugly Back

T-SQL Tuesday #21 – Bringing Ugly Back
T-SQL Tuesday #21 - I'm Bringing Ugly Back

This blog entry is participating in T-SQL Tuesday #21,...

T-SQL Tuesday #21 - Yes, Today is Wednesday!

 T-SQL Tuesday #21 - A Day Late and Totally Full of It
Holy Crap!  What in the world are we talking about...

T-SQL Tuesday (er, Wednesday): Crap Code

Ok, I have two admissions that I must bare to the world in this post.  The first is that I’ve...