Sitting in Judgment

I have been meaning to write this for a while, but i wanted to wait for a break in SQLDrama....

SQL Rally Cast Your Vote!

Pre Conference seminar voting is up now.  Go make it happen!  Here's the description of our session:
Title:

Business Intelligence Workshop
Speaker:Patrick LeBlanc,...

SQL Rally: One Day on Query Performance Tuning

The SQLRally, a new PASS initiative taking place in the spring, is going to be a community driven event. This...

SQL Saturday #49 in Orlando - Plus Run SharePoint Locally

Ok so I know this is late, but I wanted to thank Jack, Andy and the team at the Orlando...

SQL Saturday 56 Dallas (BI Edition) - Recap

This past Saturday, our NTSSUG group hosted SQL Saturday 56, which was our second SQL Saturday of the year.  This...

SQL Server 2008 - CDC Retention

I had done a little work with CDC last year, experimenting with the way that it handles changes in your...

SQLSaturday #59 – Speaker Interview #11 with Steve Simon

SQLSaturday #59 – Speaker Interview #11 with Steve Simon 
Queue the track.  I can’t help hearing the theme song from Indiana Jones...

SQLSaturday National Blog Sponsors

With SQLSaturday #49 we tried something I call micro-sponsors, charging $5 for a blogger to sponsor the event. It’s a...

The SQL Rally Pre Conference Seminars

There’s a change in how pre-conference seminars are being picked for the SQL Rally event next year in Orlando, FL....

Why CONTROL SERVER Doesn't Cut It

With the new securables since SQL Server 2005, Microsoft has advised that we start moving away from the fixed server...