How to determine the current SSIS runtime environment

If you want to test if you’re currently debugging an SSIS package via BIDS/Visual Studio, or running normally via DTExec,...

MS Certs Exam price is rising …

Today Marlon Ribunal twittes come with new info about MS Certifications exams are rising…

This is not a good news, so...

Powershell Day 28

Day 27 SQL Policy I highly recommand to go through the Policy –based management (BCM)’s official excellent site to learn...

SQL University: SQL Azure & PowerShell

Welcome once more to the Miskatonic branch of SQL University. I see that most off you survived out last encounter…...

SQLSat 83 – Johannesburg

Awesome news.  I submitted a presentation for SQLSat 83 in Johannesburg South Africa for May 7, 2011.  I saw that...

SQLSat 83 – Johannesburg

Awesome news.  I submitted a presentation for SQLSat 83 in Johannesburg South Africa for May 7, 2011.  I saw that they were opening up the presentation schedule a little...

A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 27

For Day 27 of this series, I am going to talk a little bit about disk performance and one easy...

Connection strings and application name

G’day,
There are many things that developers and DBA’s can do to help their relationships run smoothly, most of them are relatively simply...

Daily Denali Delight – Day 5

Code-named Denali – the next version of SQL Server is fast approaching.
And whenever CTP2 gets released you can be sure to...

It’s a Deal, It’s a Steal…

Its the sale of the century. To coin a cleaned up phrase from a Guy Ritchie film (either Snatch or...