Meeting Offsite and a Little Vacation

I’m heading to our “publishing summit” today at one of the Cambridge University buildings. I’m a part of the group...

PASS Update #27

I’m just back from the March 2010 Board meeting and it went better than usual (for any meeting). Most of...

SQL Server 2008 R2 - The list of the supported features

The MSDN - Microsoft, has collected too much info about features supported by the SQL Server 2008 R2, for all editions...

Why I Don’t Run for the PASS Board

It’s getting close to that time of year when you can apply to run for the PASS Board of Directors....

An Un-CATCHable Error?

I've been using the scripting tools in SSIS for some time, but I came across something today that I can't...

Critiquing Free Events

Yesterday I wrote about expectations at free events, basically saying they don’t differ a lot from paid events. The next...

Inserting into an XML document

I was reading through the latest XML Workshop article that I have from Jacob Sebastian. It’s a fantastic series for...

Left outer join vs NOT EXISTS

And to wrap up the miniseries on IN, EXISTS and JOIN, a look at NOT EXISTS and LEFT OUTER JOIN...

Managing Your Backup Files

I recently posted a couple of  scripts that backup all databases on your SQL Server instance to disk with a...

Plagiarism Again

Update: The problem posts have been removed from the SQLTechConsulting site.

I ran across a note from Brent Ozar (blog | Twitter)...