Quick Elevators

I’m at the Renaissance in Seattle for a couple days, stuck on the 14th floor. That’s higher than I normally...

2010 DBA of the Year Will be Awarded at SQLServerCentral.com PASS Opening Night Party

Tracy Hamlin, selected as the 2010 DBA of the Year, will be awarded her trophy at this year’s SQLServerCentral.com PASS...

6 Networking Tips for the PASS Summit & A Sunday Invitation

There’s no doubt that the PASS Summit is about learning. In just a few days you’ll max out your learning...

SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday – Return First Date of Month

Brian K. McDonald
SQLBIGeek
Twitter: @briankmcdonald

Welcome to the third post of my “SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday” blog series. In this series, I am...

SQLPSX 2.3 Release

Just in time for PASS Summit 2010, the CodePlex project SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX) has been updated . Here’s a...

SQLServerCentral.com Track at SQL Server Has Record Attendance

This past week, November 3-4, the SQLServerCentral.com track at SQL Server Connections has a record 431 attendees. Below are some...

1-Week to PASS Summit 2010 – After Hours

Final post for the countdown – a little later in the week than I wanted.  Right now there is less than...

A Brute Force Way to Compress a Database

There are a handful of scripts out there to compress all of of the objects in your SQL 2008 database...

Free SQL Server Training for the Week of November 8, 2010

Tuesday
PASS - Day One Opening Keynote (Ted Kummert) Live Stream
 
Wednesday
PASS - Day Two Keynote (Quentin Clark) Live Stream
PASS - Women in Technology Luncheon...

How Stale Are My Statistics?

Unlike fine wine, you typically wouldn’t want your statistics to be aged. At least for tables that are being updated...