Speaking at the 2011 PASS Summit

The emails came in today and 2 out of 4 of my sessions were selected. Both are the ones I...

SQL Books Arrived Today

A small post regarding a couple SQL books I bought from Amazon.
A couple new books arrived in the mail from...

SQL Saturday #89 Atlanta GA

The official launch of SQL Saturday #89 was June 8th.  Within the first week of the launch we have registered...

SSRS Error: Cannot read the next data row for dataset Dataset1

This error , Cannot read the next data row for dataset Dataset1, is thrown for many reasons, at least I have seen...

The 2012 Rally

In case you hadn’t heard, the 2012 SQL Rally will be in Dallas. Andy Warren talks about the process for...

Things That Should Be In TSQL

Relation Types

create type type_T(i int primary key clustered, j int check (j > 0)) -- relation type. Includes constraints!
create table T(type_T)

Relvar Assignment

This...

Three New TPC-E Submissions

I just noticed three very recent new TPC-E Benchmark Submissions that I thought were quite interesting. As I have written...

vCentre Useful Queries: Part II

After posting on twitter last week that I needed something to write a blog post about my good friend Christian...

Hash Tag Art

I haven’t tried this, but run across a reference to hashtagart that looks pretty interesting as a way to use...

How to Speak to a Tech

Hi all! I’m on vacation this week, but I’ve cleverly scheduled this blog post so you won’t miss me too...