New Path to MCM in SQL Server 2008

Last week, during the first day of the PASS 2010 Summit, Microsoft’s Joe Sack announced the revamped testing program for...

PASS Report 1: Why you should have been there!

PASS Summit 2010 is now history.  This is my eighth summit but the first one since leaving the DBA world...

PASS Summit 2010-Wrap Up

Thursday ended with a ‘Meet the Board’ meeting where attendees could come ask the Board questions or present ideas. It...

PASS Summit Magic: The Turn

Watch closely...
I mentioned in my last post that the Turn is the point in the act where the magician executes...

PASS, Keynotes and Tweeting

I have never had the opportunity to go to PASS before, but even though I was unable to attend this...

PASSMN November Meeting This Week

The PASS Summit has past and now it ‘s time to mention that the November PASSMN meeting is coming up...

Presenting At East Iowa SQL Server Users Group On Nov. 16

On Tuesday, November 16, I'll be presenting Paging DR Availability, You're Wanted in the Recovery Room via LiveMeeting to the...

ScaryDBA Blog Reboot

After all the conversations at FreeCon last week (more on that later, when I’ve assimilated it better), I finally decided...

Slides & Samples for my SQLPASS sessions

As announced in both of my session you can find my slides & samples here for download:

Building FILESTREAM
solutions with SQL Server...

SQL Server 2005 Diagnostic Information Queries (November 2010)

Here is the November 2010 version of my diagnostic information queries for SQL Server 2005. Many of these queries are...