SQL Rally 2011 Recap

As I write this, I’m somewhere in the air over Florida, headed back home to Dallas from participating in the...

Busy is as Busy Does

I am, as they say, one busy little bee.
I just got back from SQLRally last week (here are my SQLRally...

Managing Data Change

Often DBAs receive requests to manually manipulate production data. Ideally, all data changes should be performed through the appropriate application...

MCITP 1 Down 3 To Go

Yesterday I posted a quick blurb about my certification plans this year.  Well, ok not full blown plans , but you...

MCITP 1 Down 3 To Go

Yesterday I posted a quick blurb about my certification plans this year.  Well, ok not full blown plans , but you get the gist.  I announced that I would...

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1

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Presentation Deck For Hardware 201 at Denver SQL Server User’s Group on May 19, 2011

I got the chance to give an updated version of Hardware 201: Selecting and Sizing Database Hardware for OLTP Performance...

Quickly Find Your DDL Triggers with PowerShell

As a consultant I spend much of the first day or two at a client site discovering everything I can...

Re-blog – May 13-19

As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week.  Oddly enough,...

Replicating XML Columns

One caveat that’s worth mentioning is replicating the XML data type in
SQL Server using Merge Replication.  Sometimes, when replicating...