Networking and Connections

This quote says it all:

It’s from an article on the 9/11 memorial and how an algorithm was used to inscribe...

PASS Summit 2011 Session Preference Survey

PASS has added a new feature to the session selection process for the PASS Summit 2011, which they are calling...

PASS Summit Session Selection is Open

This year the Program Committee decided to open up the selection process to the community. I'm anxious to see how...

Patch Week

My email account started getting notices of Windows patches yesterday, indicating it’s patch week again. If you manage Windows devices,...

Pragmatic Tools Week: Task Factory

If you've ever spent any time doing SSIS development work, you'll eventually come to a point when developing something and...

SQLRally Overdrive: Birds of a Feather Discussions Event

Just wanted to post a quick note/invitation to everyone to come join us on Thursday, May 12th from 5:45-7:00 for...

Troubleshooting Performance -1

Whenever you get a call from user that they are facing any performance issue what would you do. As I...

TSQL Tuesday #18 - Using CTE to Analyze Disk IO

   (TSQL Tuesday on Wednesday! - Apologies for the late entry - better late than never)
Today’s topic is CTE’s.Scientifically speaking, solids mostly expand...

T-SQL: Identifying, inserting and removing spaces in strings

Frequently, when working with strings you will need to identify, insert or remove spaces before, after or in between characters.
For example, you may...

Vote for My PASS Summit Sessions

Yes, this is absolutely a shameless post for self-promotion. However, since potential attendees get to offer input into what sessions...