Gaining Speaker Experience Credentials

One of the things I saw on Twitter yesterday was several folks saying their abstract submissions had been turned down...

How Good is Good Enough?

I was running some tests on some purchased data this morning, and was getting a little perturbed because I was...

My SQLPASS session

Yesterday we got confirmation from SQLPASS if our submitted sessions for the upcoming SQLPASSS
summit in Seattle (October 11 – 14) were...

Speaking At The PASS Summit

It appears I was fortunate enough to be selected to speak at the 2011 PASS Summit.  This is shaping up...

SQL PASS 2011 Session and Pre Con

Yesterday I was thrilled to find out that my session "Common Analysis Services Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them"...

SQL Rally, PASS Summit, and More

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for SQL Server community and PASS related news.
First and probably most importantly is...

SQL Rally, PASS Summit, and More

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for SQL Server community and PASS related news.
First and probably most importantly is...

Used Book Stores and Vacation Reading

I took a vacation recently (well, a really long weekend) and as I like to do, visited a few book...

ColoradoSQL in June

All ColoradoSQL user group meetings start at 5:30 and provide food and refreshments. There is no cost to attend so...

Getting Backup File Information from a Table Valued UDF - SQLCLR to the Rescue?

Update:

After all of this SMO stuff failed (changing the permission set to unsafe got around the security exception, but instead...