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...

T-SQL Tuesday Reminder – Coming next week

Matt Velic is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month. You have a week to get a post ready on the apply...

A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 10

Wow, we are 1/3 of the way through this series! Today’s post is “Classic Intel Xeon Processor Numbering Explained”. By...

A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 9

For Day 9 of my SQL Server hardware series, I want to give my current recommended AMD Processor List for...