Looking Back at 2010

I was “inspired” to write this post after I read some comments on my last post, Reviewing My 2010 Goals, and I read Brent Ozar’s post, Goals? Where we’re...

Looking Back at 2010

I was “inspired” to write this post after I read some comments on my last post, Reviewing My 2010 Goals,...

Lots of Intel Sandy Bridge News Today

Intel has lifted the embargo today on 32nm Intel Sandy Bridge benchmarking, so there is a lot of good information...

Most Popular SQL Server Events

I recently held a poll on my blog, asking people if they had attended any SQL Server events in the...

MVP 2011

I was awarded the MVP status from Microsoft for 2011 on Jan 1, 2011. This is my fourth consecutive award...

RTFM365, Week 4

The days are just flying. I have to admit: I may have missed a day or two in the rush...

31 Days of SSIS – Using Breakpoints (2/31)

31 Days of SSIS
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m writing 31 Days of SSIS.  Today’s post is going...

31 Days of SSIS – Raw Files Are Awesome (1/31)

As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m writing 31 Days of SSIS.  Let’s start off this series with a...

31 Days of SSIS – The Introduction

31 Days of SSIS
Last year, Glenn Berry (Blog | @GlennAlanBerry) wrote a series of posts that he called A DMV A...

Easy CDC part 2: Automating a Quick Initial Load, and Some Gotchas

Introduction

A couple of weeks ago I made this post about quickly building a CDC system against a vendor ERP database....