April Version of SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Queries

I have added two new queries to this month’s version, to try to collect some more hardware information about the...

Cloud computing – not without risk?

Interesting quote from Sharepoint Best Practices Conference :” 17% of IT Pros think benefits of cloud computing outweigh the risks”!!

That’s not...

Hostettler the Viking Needs a New Ship and Your Help

Hostettler the Viking Needs a New Ship…And Your Help.
My good friend Justin Hostettler Davies (Blog@DBExpertise) pinged me a mail in...

If you truly want to understand something try and change it.

I saw this quote on facebook last week and it really hit close to home.  I had just started working...

Limit Results Based on Aggregated Threshold

Problem
A post was recently added to one of the forums that I monitor so that I can help users in...

Powershell Day 11

Day 11 COM and WMI Powershell is a very powerful language, with Powershell we can achieve same result with the...

Slides & Samples for my SQLbits session

As announced in both of my sessions, you can download the slides & samples for
my SQLbits sessions here:

Message
in a Bottle: Service...

SQLBits Attendance Breaks Previous Records

How many people can you identify in the above photo from the closing party at SQLBits? Can you find Ola...

SSIS Job Ownership

I was strolling along one day when I saw somebody asking how to find out who owns a maintenance plan....

SSIS Job Ownership

I was strolling along one day when I saw somebody asking how to find out who owns a maintenance plan.  That evolved into finding out who owns the the...