T-SQL Tuesday #17 – APPLY Knowledge

It’s that time of the month again… again.  Time for T-SQL Tuesday!  This month’s event is being hosted by Matt...

#SqlBits and SSIS custom components

If you are in anyway interested in SQL Server and live in the UK,  you cant of failed to of...

A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 11

For Day 11, I want to talk about the new processor numbering system for Xeon processors that Intel introduced on...

April PASSMN Meeting (April 19)

Every career, whether on purpose or accident, is a journey from one job or project to another.  To achieve great...

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...