A Glimpse of the Future

I’m not sure what happened here. I walked up to my desktop, wiggled the mouse, and nothing happened. In the...

CLR Stability

Recently I was at a UK user group meeting and Simon Sabin of SQL Skills presented a short “SQL Nugget”...

How Can I Tell if SQL Agent is Running via SQL?

Introduction
Today’s post is a continuation in my on-going effort to document all of the scripts I use to manage my...

May Question: What is your favorite DBA joke?

Post your responses to the above SQL Aloha Question of the Month in the comments section below (at www.bradmcgehee.com if...

Nominations for the 2010 Exceptional DBA Award are Now Open

SQLServerCentral.com, along with Red Gate Software, are glad to announce that nominations for the 2010 Exceptional DBA Awards are now...

PASS Update #31 (Election Prep)

Sometime soon we’ll start the process of the 2010 PASS election, with three seats on the Board of Directors being...

Spring 2010 Hardware Recommendations

Since I am very interested in various PC-based hardware, and I make an effort to stay current on new developments,...

SQL Server Replication - Replication Agents

My first post in my replication series gave a brief overview of replication, before I dive into setting up and...

Don’t Forget to Register for the Free 24 Hours of PASS

The free 24 Hours of PASS event will held May 19 & 20, and includes 24 different one hour presentations on...

Follow Up: LinkedIn Poll

A couple weeks ago I wrote about testing the LinkedIn polling capability, putting up this poll:

The response rate wasn’t great,...