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...

SQLSaturday #59 - Speaker Interview Series #18 with Matt Van Horn

 SQLSaturday #59 – Speaker Interview Series #18 – with Matt Van Horn
Notes from the SQLSat#59 Team:  SQLSaturday#59 is just 5 days away...

SQLServerPedia Awards Winner

Thanks to all those that voted for my Index Black Ops blog series for the SQLServerPedia blog awards.  I am...

SSIS Denali Resolve References

One of the new features in SSIS Denali that I’m really excited about (Other than the ability to Undo ctrl-z)...

Switching Off Parameter Sniffing

Or, another way to put it, in most cases, shooting yourself in the foot.
I was not aware that the cumulative...