Stupid Tech Support Tales

One of our desktop support technicians noticed the following error from a 3rd party vendor application in an error log:

"9/22/2010...

When the Bloc Québécois is a Nuisance for Quebeckers’ Interests: The Top 20 Countdown

 The below is a republished version that has been released officially on the Canadian Federal Liberal Party's web site.  Finally...

A Small Selection of SQL Azure System Queries

I had a question come up during my “Getting Started with SQL Azure” presentation at SQLSaturday #52 in Denver last...

Common SQL Server Mistakes – Indexing Every Column

If one index helps speed up queries, than more indexes should help more, right? They do, but they also come...

Don’t Take me (too) Literally

Years ago I was part of a heated discussion about the ability/inclination of a team I was on to build...

Grabbing SWAG

It’s getting close to the time for the SQLServerCentral party events this fall, and time to start gathering up SWAG...

How to Prove a Fact (Again)

Sean’s latest rant – about a vendor with a dangerously small amount of SQL knowledge – has spurred me to talk about...

Index Operations Showdown: Drop & Create vs. Create With Drop_Existing vs. Rebuild

Every now and then you may have had to move nonclustered indexes between filegroups. There are two ways it can...

The Lone Ranger And Data Integrity

Many IT Pros can relate to the the Lone Ranger. With the aid of but one trusty side kick, the...

Upcoming Florida Events

Lots of events in Florida, easy to lose track! The Tallahassee Code Camp is October 23, 2010, details at http://www.tallycodecamp.org/...