CHD Awareness Week

Do you know about congenital heard defects (CHD)?  Did you know that February 7-14 is the week dedicated to making...

February PASSMN Meeting This Week

PASSMN meeting is this week on Tuesday.  Without further ado…

Meeting Details
Here are the details on the meeting location and time:
Date:February...

Presenting for the PASS PowerShell Virtual Chapter

On Wednesday, February 16 at 2:00pm CST I’ll be presenting “.NET Powers Activate! Form of PowerShell!” to the PASS PowerShell...

Quest Webcast: Dos and Don’ts of Database corruption

I was guest presenter on last week’s Quest Pain of the Week presentation. The presentation is available for download from...

SQL Server and the “Lock pages in memory” Right in Windows Server

Another Windows setting you might want to enable is “Lock pages in memory”. There is some controversy within the SQL...

The results are in: What Tech Companies Are Doing it Right?

Last week I asked you: What Tech Companies Are Doing it Right?
Which SQL (or SQL-adjacent) tech companies are doing right,...

Working on the Railroad

I work with a client that has an office about 25 yards from a train track and recently the railroad...

Writing A Month Long Blog Series

You might wake up one day soon and think, “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool to write a month long blog...

DBA 101: Why Don’t People Run Backups

It happened multiple times this week. It happens multiple times every week. Some poor soul is posting on a message...

Evaluating Performance of View and Stored procedure

I got a chance to evaluate performance of both views and stored procedure for high level decision making.
As all of Us knows that purpose/scope...