Broken or Just Bent? #passvotes

Though things have died down a bit since the initial backlash, the recent development in the PASS board election process...

Common SQL Server Mistakes - Shrinking Databases

I don’t like there being an easy command to shrink databases, and I especially don’t like seeing the shrink option...

Failing Fast

I’ll have a longer post next week about my own risk strategy, but I wanted to write this first, both...

How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?

The theme for this month's T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a script that I have written to see what choices...

How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?

The theme for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a...

How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?

The theme for this month's T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a script that I have written to see what choices...

One wide index or multiple narrow indexes?

Or “If one index is good, surely many indexes (indexes? indices? indi?) will be better”
This is a question that comes...

PASS Election Ends Tomorrow (Sep 15, 2010)

If you haven’t voted I hope you will. Ballots were sent out via email to those members eligible to vote....

September OPASS Meeting Tonight!

Live Meeting: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=NQ65ZG&role=attend

Mini-Session

Topic: Using PIVOT – Going from Static to Dynamic

Sometimes data normalization results in a data structure that is not convenient for...

Some Days....

Some days I think I go full retard.