A day of rest

Not quite a day of rest, likely some chores in advance of another busy weekend at the ranch.
I’m taking today...

Food Drive

Don’t forget the food drive tomorrow for SQL Saturday #52 in Colorado. Please bring food, or even clothing/blankets, that can...

Free SQL Server Training for the Week of September 27, 2010

Tuesday
PASS Application Development Virtual Chapter - Next-Level SQLCLR: Parallel Processing and Bulk Load - Adam Machanic
Pragmatic Works - Performance tuning the cube - Adam...

A Little Help with Azure Please

Not long ago Microsoft announced a new product called Azure AKA “SQL Server in the Cloud”. I have to say...

Common SQL Server Mistakes – Multi Row DML Triggers

How often have you seen someone write a DML trigger like this:
createtrigger mytrigger on Mytable forinsertas

declare @id int
select @id = id...

COMPUTE: now it is going, what else will do it?

/*I'd be very surprised if you've ever used the old COMPUTE clause in SQL Server. It is a bit mad,...

Is It that Time Again?

Yes, it is.  As I mentioned a few months back, it is important to pay attention to when Microsoft releases...

PASS Elections – Improving the Process

Since there has been a bit of a furor over the PASS election process the past 2 years I thought...

Braindumps and Certification

I saw a post recently that said that braindumps were the best way to prepare for certifications. It was posted...

Index Black Ops Part 3 – Index Usage

Last week, I mentioned in my TSQL2sDay index summary post, that I’d be writing a few posts on the information...