Fashionably Late, but She's Here!

I'm pleased to announce the latest addition to the Kelley family, a beautiful baby girl born at 11:56 PM last...

Get Prepared for the January Hiring Season

Get Prepared for the January Hiring Season

As the year winds down, in what was undoubtedly a tough economic year for...

MCM Live Blog – Week December 20

Watching videos?! Su-ure!
Time for the second week of blogging about the things that I’m doing to study for the MCM...

Pragmatic Works: The Transition

So if you know me via Twitter or my blog you

probably know that as of about a month or two...

SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 5 Released

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 5 (CU5), which is Build 1753.  I count 40 separate...

SQL Server Storage Internals Part 4 - How to read a Heap page

I like to share 4 updates before moving on to this section:

1. I 've updated my profile to know more about...

The 9th Day of SQL: Things Aren't as Simple as They Seem

The 12 days of SQL
Brent Ozar (blog | twitter) had an idea: a group of people should blog about writing which...

And the winners are….. (iPads for Christmas contest)

Congratulations to the following winners of our iPads for Christmas contest. It was a hard choice, but I ended up...

Another Lunch Story

Lately I’ve been having some unusual lunches, starting with the bbq fiasco from last week. For this one I have...

Can You Dig It? – SHOWPLAN XML Structure

She can dig it!
D Sharon PruittIn the last couple plan cache posts, I talked about a couple items that are...