Happy moments in 2010

Happy moments in 2010
Hi all wish you a happy new year.

I know it’s a late post anyway I am going...

It’s A Major Award!

“It’s a major award!” That’s what Darren McGavin’s signature role, Mr. Parker, proudly proclaimed to friends and family in the...

RTFM365, Week 5

I’m trying to plan out this week better, and come at the RTFM readings with a sense of direction an...

Speaking at EDMPASS This Month

If you are up in Edmonton around January 26th, you can hear my voice at the EDMPASS January user group...

SQL Server Index Tuning for Mere Mortals

One of the most important things to measure, monitor, and “get right” for good overall SQL Server OLTP performance is...

The laptop rebuild continues

Not done yet, but I have been slowly patching and installing software over the last few evenings, stuck at my...

Troubleshooting SSRS subscription failures

Of-late one of our SSRS 2005 report subscriptions started to fail regularly with the error message
Failure sending mail: Timeout expired....

Windows Experience on W510

I toyed with the idea of using the SSD for my main drive, but I’d really like to get the...

31 Days of SSIS – Recursive SSIS Package (6/31)

31 Days of SSIS
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m writing 31 Days of SSIS.  In the first post...

Date Rounding Tactics and the Tiny Devil of SMALLDATETIME

Tiny Devils
With every new year I think a little bit about time and dates. This posts looks a little more...